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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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How to take forest landscape restoration to the next level
17.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Europe - Governments around the world have pledged over 150 million hectares of forested land…
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Better farming practices key to combating desertification and drought
15.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Combating desertification and drought is critical, but focusing on the bigger challenge of unsustain…
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WLE Director promotes payments for ecosystems services at EAT Forum
14.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Director Izabella Koziell on the main…
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India.Mongabay.com: India’s groundwater crisis, fueled by intense pumping, needs urgent management
13.06.18-
Environmental health
Central and southern India appear to be experiencing increasing freshwater stores, likely due to a…
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Water User Associations
13.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Learning to deliver on their promise in Africa Irrigated agriculture has once again risen to…
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Synergizing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Cameroon
12.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Cameroon needs to adopt an integrated approach to climate change. However, there are still many…
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A first – and hard – look at restoring Mexico’s terrestrial ecosystems
11.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Mexico is home to vast biological and cultural diversity, alongside a robust legal framework and…
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Realizing bamboo and rattan’s full potential: An interview with INBAR Director General Hans Friederich
11.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Ahead of the Global Bamboo and Rattan Conference (BARC) on June 25-27, 2018, the International…
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Why we need a holistic approach to improve our complex food system
08.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Our current food systems are incredibly complex, and are experiencing multiple failures across many …
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Ocean currents are slowing down, and that’s bad news
07.06.18-
Environmental health
Two recent articles in the journal Nature reached the same disconcerting conclusion: One of the…
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Data cleaning, the unsexy but essential aspect of data science
07.06.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields…
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Making landscape finance more inclusive
07.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new initiative aims to share issues and best practice for increasing inclusive, responsible financ…
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WateRice project demonstrated laser guided land leveling technology to Iloilo farmers
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IRRI works with national partners to promote technologies that maximize water-use efficiency and to …
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World Environment Day
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Our rivers are barometers of environmental neglect – it’s time to clean them up…
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AdaDerana.lk: How is Sri Lanka preparing to tackle recurring floods?
05.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
However, each year the country scrambles in search for an effective forecast and flood management…
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Can our environment survive our food needs? We asked 11 eminent water scientists
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
As the world marks World Environment Day this week, we ponder the links between our…
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Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
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GYF and IITA partner to promote relevant cross cultural environmental education in Nigeria
01.06.18-
Environmental health
Atlanta, GA - Greening Youth Foundation (GYF) and the International Institute of Tropical Agricultur…
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