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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
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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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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
23.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Zambia - It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of…
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News Trust: Fears over handwashing in Africa to stem coronavirus seen as trigger for change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Aid workers and advisors said countries should seize the moment ahead of World Water Day…
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New study explores the benefits of a One Health approach to investigating antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam
22.03.20-
Health
In Vietnam, antimicrobial resistance in animal and human health settings poses a significant threat,…
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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
21.03.20-
Biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises. Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places…
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SMART WATER MANAGEMENT – HOW A DROP OF DATA GOES A LONG WAY
21.03.20The effects of ever-strengthening climate change are felt most keenly in the dry areas of…
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Crowdsourced data feeds fall armyworm surveillance in Bangladesh
20.03.20-
Food security
Following the spread of fall armyworm, crowdsourced data is powering a web-based application to he…
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Systems thinking at work in South Asia’s food production
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2009, state governments in Northwest India implemented a policy designed to reduce groundwater ex…
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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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How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19?
20.03.20-
Food security
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Health
In a recent blog post, we analyzed how the spread of the disease associated with the…
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Economist Intelligence Unit: As the world’s philanthropists boost climate funding, let’s make water a priority
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Claudia Sadoff, Director General of IWMI, argues that our efforts to mitigate the impacts of…
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2020 the Year of #Water4Climate
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the…
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COVID-19 is a deadly reminder that inclusive water supply and sanitation matters for all of us
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Since the COVID-19 crisis escalated, we have been reminded daily that one of the most…
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An Alliance for Trees: Why forest biodiversity is "too precious to lose"
20.03.20From forest fires to COVID-19, this year has already presented grave challenges to human and planet…
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Nutrition, gender and breeding modernization: Focal points of West and Central Africa research agenda
20.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The spotlight was on biofortification, gender equity and breeding program modernization at the recen…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
20.03.20We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these…
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Training and low-cost tech cut aflatoxin by 53 per cent
19.03.20-
Health
Aflatoxin exposure threatens food security throughout the developing world. Training and low-cost te…
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WHEAT carries on in the “new normal” of COVID-19
18.03.20-
Health
The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat and its lead center, the International Maize and Wheat…
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