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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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“Voices of the Landscape” at GLF offer insights into community restoration initiatives
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)30.08.18-
Environmental health
The Voices of the Landscape plenary at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference in Nairobi on …
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ElPais.com: What to do in the absence of water
IWMI30.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
No development is possible without it. And more than 5,000 million people could suffer scarcity…
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GLF Nairobi shines spotlight on communities in Africa restoring degraded landscapes
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.08.18-
Environmental health
Africa loses 2.8 million hectares of forest each year, an area roughly the size of…
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Stronger political commitments, rural governance key to landscape restoration: One World – No Hunger envoy
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.08.18-
Environmental health
We have the necessary technical knowledge to restore landscapes, said deputy director-general and co…
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CIFOR director general urges paradigm shift to meet landscape restoration goals
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.08.18-
Environmental health
If landscape degradation brings huge costs to society and restoration brings impressive returns, why…
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We need a revolution in land management, says ICRAF’s Tony Simons
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.08.18-
Environmental health
Tony Simons is director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), which is based in Nairob…
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Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)28.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…
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Getting ahead of disaster risks
IWMI28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…
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New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…
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World Water Week 2018
IWMI27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …
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Tanzania and Togo pledge land restoration targets under AFR100
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)26.08.18-
Environmental health
Tanzania and Togo made significant commitments to restore forested landscapes under the AFR100 Initi…
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Raising voices for blue forests: A chat with Tanzanian “mangrover” Mwita Mangora
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)26.08.18-
Environmental health
A self-professed “mangrover,” Mwita Mangora lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tan…
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Greenpop Malawi tea project conserves soil, water and forests
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)25.08.18-
Environmental health
Despite agriculture accounting for 70 percent of Africa’s annual loss of 2.8 million hectares o…
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Irrigation technology investments without accompanying policies might worsen water scarcity, new study finds
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.08.18-
Environmental health
Washington D.C.: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing t…
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Can we actually measure resilience?
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)23.08.18-
Environmental health
Resilience is a concept that is being applied to many different domains, from infrastructure’s res…
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How to pay for watershed rehabilitation
IWMI23.08.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands pay a high price for reduced land productivity caused by…
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Dangerous times for eco-defenders
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)22.08.18-
Environmental health
Indigenous leader Isidro Baldenegro Lopez tried to protect the old-growth forests of the Sierra Mad…
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Top takeaways from mangroves expert Salomão Bandeira on community restoration
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)22.08.18-
Environmental health
Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with …
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