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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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Countering climate change with the cascade effect
09.01.19-
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Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade…
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Reconciling growth with nature’s gifts
07.01.19-
Environmental health
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Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.…
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Experts identify policy gaps in fertilizer application in India
03.01.19-
Environmental health
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Imbalanced application of different plant nutrients through fertilizers is a widespread problem in I…
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Peatlands for today and tomorrow
02.01.19-
Environmental health
Peatlands are increasingly playing a bigger role in forest conservation thanks to their extraordinar…
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How agricultural research can navigate the perfect storm
26.12.18-
Environmental health
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The world is about to face the perfect storm. Population growth, rising incomes, and urbanization…
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Socioeconomic impacts of tree plantations overwhelmingly negative for local people
24.12.18-
Environmental health
Uruguay - The results are dispiriting, if not unsurprising: a systematic review of the available…
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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste
22.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agr…
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Journal article: Tragedy revisited (Science)
21.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses how games could be used to help people cooperate to sustainably manage…
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Livestock and trees: A more perfect union
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Illustration by Remy Charlip via Pinterest: Cover of Four Fur Feet, written by Margaret Wise Brown.…
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Trees on farms contributing to post-2020 biodiversity framework
21.12.18-
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As countries wrapped up discussion at CBD COP 14 in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, the…
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Peatlands: An appetite to re-wet?
18.12.18-
Environmental health
Bonn - BONN, Germany – In recent years the role of peatlands in landscape restoration…
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The Tamale Declaration: a regreening plan for northern Ghana
18.12.18-
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Environmental health
An international workshop has called for an integrated plan to regreen the region. The climax…
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Climate and Agriculture at COP24: Depressing or Exhilarating?
18.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Walking the hallways of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 24th Conf…
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REDD+ and the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
17.12.18-
Biodiversity
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The rainforest nation is taking steps to improve links between the two mechanisms. The Democratic…
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Seed diversity vital to achieve landscape restoration pledges
14.12.18-
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Optimally achieving forest landscape restoration – and its associated benefits for ecology and hum…
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Soils Advantage: Scaling up action on soil carbon
13.12.18-
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Environmental health
Soil carbon has become the darling of the climate change world, because it can accomplish…
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Can resilience go digital?
12.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Disasters typically hit hardest at the most vulnerable populations among us. Such people often have…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
11.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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