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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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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Three weeks to make tastier, healthier crop residues for animal feed
23.11.18-
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A 21-day treatment process to improve the nutritive value as well as taste of crop…
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How ICRISAT saved a lifetime’s worth of water over just three years
23.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT-Patancheru has been saving over 100,000 liters of potable water every day since 2015. That…
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Ten Questions & Answers about ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
20.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In late 2017, several illegal attempts were made to sell parcels of land at Kapiti…
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Restoring land and increasing resilience needs women
20.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Raising awareness of gender equity and equality is critical for Africa’s future, with workshops li…
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Finding a recipe to reduce conflict in state forest areas
19.11.18-
Environmental health
Indonesia - As the global market for biofuels and edible oils grows, investment into oil…
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Tougher FSC certification guidelines would make forest oversight more transparent in Brazil
19.11.18-
Environmental health
Brazil - (Forests News) – An internationally recognized product labelling system designed to ensur…
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The SDGs on Zero Hunger and Clean Water and Sanitation can’t be achieved without each other, so where do we start?
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
The 2015-2030 period has become a crucial time for progress in global sustainable development: The …
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New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
16.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in…
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Significant progress in pearl millet pre-breeding to develop drought- and blast-resistant varieties
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Efforts to develop pearl millet with improved resistance to drought and blast disease recently got…
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
16.11.18-
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Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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How agricultural research can navigate the perfect storm
15.11.18-
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We are the authors of unintended consequences Too often, meeting one need harms our ability…
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Bhutan’s forest resources under pressure: Villagers adapt to change
15.11.18-
Environmental health
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Bhutan - Tshewang Dorji is a forestry researcher. When he is in Bhutan, he usually…
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TheConversation: Food security in Africa depends on rethinking outdated water law
15.11.18-
Environmental health
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A new study has found that outdated, colonial-era water permit systems across Africa are unintenti…
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High pesticide use among smallholders in Africa south of the Sahara poses risks for health, environment
13.11.18-
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Africa south of the Sahara is urbanizing rapidly and its real GDP is growing robustly,…
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Lessons from Latin America: Using less, earning more
13.11.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abílio Rodrigues Pacheco is a landowner in the Brazilian state of Goiás who works for…
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A sustainable future for people and nature? It's still possible
12.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate change, declining air and water quality, rapid population growth – it can seem overwhelmin…
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Where are the public education campaigns about climate change?
09.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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When the HIV/AIDS epidemic became recognized as a serious threat to public health, there were…
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A framework to identify suitable on-farm approaches to combat climate change
09.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Comparing ‘climate smart’ agricultural strategies just became easier. A framework that can lead …
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