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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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-
Big data
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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Can you imagine a world of waste-wise cities? Accra leads the way
01.10.18-
Environmental health
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Health
The challengeWaste is piling up in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, which is home to…
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El Salvador’s president urges U.N. support for decade of ecosystem restoration
30.09.18-
Environmental health
A major international effort to devote a decade to promoting the restoration and rehabilitation of…
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Priorities for Green Climate Fund identified by the Philippines
28.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Almost 400 initiatives were consolidated from government agencies to create the focus areas that wil…
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U.N. Champions of the Earth Award recognizes eco-defender Joan Carling
27.09.18-
Environmental health
Environment and indigenous rights defender Joan Carling has received the 2018 Champions of the Earth…
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Preventing total forest loss in Uganda
26.09.18-
Environmental health
By 2050 Uganda will be completely without forest cover at the current rate of tree…
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IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
26.09.18-
Environmental health
While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and eggs are frequently…
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on farm animal diversity for more sustainable and resilient global food systems
25.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this week ma…
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Land restoration in Africa builds momentum
25.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes…
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The future of land restoration is community-led, says WLE/ICRISAT at Tropentag
21.09.18-
Environmental health
Advancing the agenda of land restoration in Africa’s Sahel region, let alone globally, is no…
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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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Mobile phone app launched to strengthen new insurance scheme for India’s farmers
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The scheme aims to provide more than half of Indian farmers with crop insurance within…
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What’s in it for gender researchers when it comes to UN Women’s gender and SDGs report?
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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IWMI scientist awarded for contributions to water policy in South Asia
20.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has named Tushaar Shah, a senior fellow with …
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‘High-yield’ farming costs the environment less than previously thought—and could help spare habitats
20.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
‘Breed More Dairy Cows’ poster from Vietnam. ‘New findings suggest that more intensive agricul…
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Water, ecosystems, human development – we can’t have one without the others
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Keynote address by UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina MohammedPhoto by Adam Hunt / WLE…
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IWA-network.org: Re-examining the economics, engineering and water management paradigms – An interview with Claudia Sadoff
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IWMI Director General, Claudia Sadoff, spoke to IWA about exciting initiatives that turn wealth fro…
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Agricultural research and education combine for tangible results in Latin America
17.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In light of its standing as a regional research platform and a higher education institution…
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Antarctic ozone depletion influences rainfall in tropics
14.09.18-
Environmental health
For residents of New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina or South Africa, the hole in the…
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