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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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Overcoming the “paradox” of irrigation efficiency
08.11.18-
Environmental health
Agricultural is a major player in the competition for the world’s finite water supplies: 70…
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Digital disruption in agriculture
07.11.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in India contributes to about 17% of GDP but employs nearly 55% of the…
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Peatlands: From marginal lands to essential ecosystem
07.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Peatlands, natural areas of the accumulated decayed plant material known as peat, have huge importan…
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Agroforestry and land health in Malawi
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In the last five years ICRAF has helped establish comprehensive soil information systems in Tanzania…
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Why cows are getting a bad rap in lab-grown meat debate
01.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A small-scale production line of the leghemoglobin for a plant-based hamburger is displayed during a…
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Discover what urban wetlands are worth
31.10.18-
Environmental health
[caption id="attachment_139075" align="alignnone" width="300"] Colombo Wetlands Complex[/capt…
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
30.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit: BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
30.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Researchers at Africa Water Week call for efforts to “decolonize” and improve water permit syste…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
29.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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Ramsar Convention COP13
25.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.…
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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
24.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
23.10.18-
Environmental health
Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
23.10.18-
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Environmental health
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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