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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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-
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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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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FEATURE: Organizing farmers into tree-based enterprises
14.04.20-
Biodiversity
The Philippine Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) is a hu…
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What if we need more? Wildling propagation as an alternative for production of tree-planting material
07.04.20A quick search amongst the policies that brought forth the biggest forest restoration projects in…
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More stakes, more climbing beans, less malnutrition: Rwanda finds a solution in agroforestry
03.04.20-
Food security
In Rwanda, the demand for adequate and nutritious food continues to rise as the population…
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Insecurity in Niger: reversing the gains made in land restoration
02.04.20-
Gender equality
Just two years into the implementation of the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by Scaling-up Ev…
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Remembering Peter Huxley: One of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research
31.03.20Peter Huxley was one of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research; one of his greatest legacies…
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Meeting in The Gambia delivers Banjul Tree Cover Resolution: ‘Every day that we delay comes at a cost’
30.03.20-
Food security
On 20-21 February, the Government of The Gambia, under its Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation P…
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Participants appreciate the practicality of training in seed procurement
27.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Participants of a training course organized by the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio (PATS…
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Could agro-ecological approaches be a low-cost alternative towards fall armyworm control for smallholders in Zambia?
27.03.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smart Mwape, a 65-year-old farmer in Chongwe, Zambia was surprised to find strange caterpillars as…
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Ugandan teacher walks 664 km to raise awareness of shea trees: ‘My worry is extinction’
25.03.20Arriving in Nairobi on 2 March, Gerima Mustapha, 47, emerged out of the driving rain…
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Why measuring youths’ aspirations is key to sustainable and inclusive rural development
23.03.20The first results of the Kenyan census conducted in 2019 reveal a gradual demographic transition t…
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Transition - Mehmood Ul Hassan, Muhammad
23.03.20It is with profound grief and sadness that management, board and entire staff of Centre…
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The role of agroforestry in forest restoration
20.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) was launched in 201…
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Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya's future
10.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
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