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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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Environmental health
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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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Irrigation technology investments without accompanying policies might worsen water scarcity, new study finds
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?
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
23.08.18-
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
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
22.08.18-
Environmental health
Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with …
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Community key for successful mangrove restoration, says Lalao Aigrette of Blueventures Madagascar
21.08.18-
Environmental health
Traveling between remote islands by dugout canoe, and trudging through muddy mangrove forests in 40-…
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Mad about mangroves: scientist James Kairo
21.08.18-
Environmental health
A self-proclaimed “ambassador for mangroves,” scientist James Kairo has been swapping bet…
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On the road back from ‘safari science’ to embedded collaboration
20.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As demand for commodities rises, landscapes are changing quickly as natural forests are felled for…
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Q+A: GLF a powerful lever in fight against hunger and poverty, says One World – No Hunger envoy
20.08.18-
Environmental health
Stefan Schmitz first joined the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in …
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Restoring land in Africa an opportunity for women’s rights, says president of women’s forest network
20.08.18-
Environmental health
Deforestation and land degradation amount to almost a third of Africa’s landmass, which has a…
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Q+A: The backstory on invasive plant species with CABI’s Arne Witt
20.08.18-
Environmental health
Invasive plant species pose a major threat to biodiversity, water resources, food security, e…
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Hanging in the balance: Preservation, restoration and sustainable management in Indonesian peatlands
20.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The protection of peatland ecosystems, which store “disproportionate” amounts of carbon, is vita…
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Ethiopia’s new forestry law: A win for landscapes and livelihoods?
19.08.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia - The Ethiopian government has a big dream: restoring 22 million hectares of degraded…
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Kofi Annan leaves legacy as champion for landscape restoration in Africa
19.08.18-
Environmental health
As the world pays tribute and honors the life of Kofi Annan, many will remember…
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Sustainably managing non-timber products to improve livelihoods, equity and forests
19.08.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
New Guidelines for Equitable and Sustainable Non-timber Forest Product Management offer field-tested…
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High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
17.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so th…
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Values-based youth leadership education key to environmental sustainability: Wangari Maathai Foundation chair
17.08.18-
Environmental health
Forest cover in Kenya is declining at an alarming rate, mainly due to poor forest…
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Muddy waters: Exploring mangrove governance in Tanzania’s Rufiji Delta and beyond
16.08.18-
Environmental health
Occupying the murky boundaries between land and sea, mangroves have often been devalued as pesky…
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