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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Despite general acceptance by scientists, governments and investors that traditional knowledge is as…

Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…

SRFSI: The West Bengal story

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

In India’s state of West Bengal, the success of men and women farmers and agri-entrepreneurs…

Water diverting weir structure in Chifra, Afar, Ethiopia.

Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource

Food security

Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil sci…

Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

26.05.19

Biodiversity

It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…

FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?

25.05.19

Environmental health
Health

Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…

Vietnam can reduce emissions and save $2.3 billion with changes in agriculture and land usev

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Through cost-saving practices for coffee, rice, maize, and livestock production, Vietnam can increas…

T20: Investments in irrigation and food system links can prevent food crises in Africa south of the Sahara

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Food crises continue to plague the African continent, driven by conflict, climate change, and econo…

ILRI annual report goes online

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its…

Conference on Advances in Classical Breeding and Application of Modern Breeding Tools for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Food security
Nutrition

Plant breeding provides sustainable options to increase domestic food supply and dietary diversity i…

Scaling up sustainable forestry projects key to attracting finance

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Continuing this new interview series on inclusive landscape finance, we hear from the corporate sect…

Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Biodiversity
Gender equality

Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…

Forest finance partnerships more productive than competition

23.05.19

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Benjamin Singer of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat shares his views on incl…

In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

23.05.19

Biodiversity

Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…

Possible pathways for development in Africa: What's missing?

23.05.19

Biodiversity

This week the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Coming on the heels…

Seeing the forest, not just the trees