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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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Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials
27.05.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…
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SRFSI: The West Bengal story
27.05.19In India’s state of West Bengal, the success of men and women farmers and agri-entrepreneurs…
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Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource
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Food security
Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil sci…
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Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves
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Biodiversity
It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
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Environmental health
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Health
Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Vietnam can reduce emissions and save $2.3 billion with changes in agriculture and land usev
24.05.19Through cost-saving practices for coffee, rice, maize, and livestock production, Vietnam can increas…
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T20: Investments in irrigation and food system links can prevent food crises in Africa south of the Sahara
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food crises continue to plague the African continent, driven by conflict, climate change, and econo…
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ILRI annual report goes online
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its…
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Conference on Advances in Classical Breeding and Application of Modern Breeding Tools for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
24.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Plant breeding provides sustainable options to increase domestic food supply and dietary diversity i…
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Scaling up sustainable forestry projects key to attracting finance
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Continuing this new interview series on inclusive landscape finance, we hear from the corporate sect…
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Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women
24.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…
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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…
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In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?
23.05.19-
Biodiversity
Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…
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Possible pathways for development in Africa: What's missing?
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Biodiversity
This week the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Coming on the heels…
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Seeing the forest, not just the trees
22.05.19Nature-based solutions such as ecosystem restoration will play an indispensable role in addressing c…
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G20 agriculture ministers agree to cooperate on promoting digital technologies for more efficient food systems
22.05.19At their May 11-12 meeting in Niigata, Japan, G20 agriculture ministers agreed to cooperate in prom…
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Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later
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Biodiversity
The fascinating diversity of maize in Mexico is rooted in its cultural and biological legacy…
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Recipes to the rescue
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to lev…
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