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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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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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Farmer led landscape restoration offers multiple benefits for smallholders and women in Burkina Faso
01.08.18-
Environmental health
In Burkina Faso, many smallholder farmers rely on tree-based landscapes to deliver vital provisions …
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TheConversation: How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet
01.08.18-
Environmental health
Over half of global freshwater becomes unusable wastewater. IWMI has analysed 24 possibilities for…
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Q+A: No silver bullet for solving landscape restoration challenges in Africa, CIFOR director general says
31.07.18-
Environmental health
Landscapes in Africa must be restored to ensure the natural resource needs of the continent’s…
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IFPRI.org: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
26.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
"In a finite world we need a much more circular-engineering approach." says IWMI Director General…
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Q+A: Africa at critical climate action crossroads, UN Environment chief says
26.07.18-
Environmental health
The movement to restore degraded land and meet targets under the Paris agreement on climate…
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Policy seminar: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
25.07.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD Promoting water security requires both increasing productivity to contend with scar…
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Failure to manage blue carbon ecosystems could break the internet
24.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Failing to properly manage “blue carbon” ecosystems could result in biodiversity losses, pronoun…
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Financial benefits for smallholders help realize Kenya Upper Tana landscape initiative
23.07.18-
Environmental health
Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has prioritized the protection of its land alongside the…
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Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air,…
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Governing blue carbon – and all that it entails
19.07.18-
Environmental health
Indonesia - The banks of the Ciliwung River are not grounds for Jakarta’s most desired…
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Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge
18.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a…
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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa
17.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…
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Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (United Nations): Webcast of remarks by IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff
13.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Claudia Sadoff addresses the particularly complex targets concerning water scarcity as well as susta…
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Coming soon: ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The guidelines are expected to successfully overcome institutional hurdles and will eventually lead …
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CNN.com: Can the Middle East solve its water problem?
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
"When you draw down more water than is replenished, then you begin to degrade the…
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Philippine partners learn about mechanized straw collection
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Rice straw is a major residue in Philippine rice farms. Due to lack of awareness…
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Reduce bureaucracy for community, indigenous groups embroiled in land rights challenges, report urges
12.07.18-
Environmental health
Formal land tenure claims -- often stalled by costly legal disputes lasting up to 30…
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Bhoochetana: An exceptional story of innovation scale-up bringing prosperity to over 4 million farmers
10.07.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In May 2009, farmers in the state of Karnataka were facing declining crop yields and…
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