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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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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
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Food security
On May 6, a global panel of scientists representing more than 130 nations released the…
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IPBES recognizes why agrobiodiversity matters
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Biodiversity
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report,…
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Getting sweetpotato technologies into the hands of Mozambique’s vulnerable households
13.05.19In Mozambique’s Mucuba district – Zambezia province, a group of women farmers break into cel…
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4 takes on how to build a sustainable world
10.05.19The Global Landscape Forum (GLF) Kyoto event will explore landscape-based solutions for the climate …
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How political territories can boost sustainable business
10.05.19Learn more about this topic at the Global Landscapes Forum Kyoto on 13 May, which can…
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Cassava farmers in Tanzania to benefit from new industry partnership with ACAI project
10.05.19At a recent meeting in Tanzania, IITA, through the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) and…
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Extinction crisis on its way, according to new global report
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Biodiversity
A major new report is warning that human activity could lead to the extinction of…
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Study endorses processing of biofortified sweetpotato-based baby food in reducing malnutrition
10.05.19Scientists at the International Potato Center (CIP) have welcomed a recent study supporting the comm…
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Webinar on culture, choice and action in legume seeds systems in East and North Uganda
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Environmental health
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted a webinar on ‘Culture, choice and acti…
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22 years after the Kyoto Protocol, climate change expert is highly optimistic
09.05.19Markku Kanninen will speak at the Global Landscapes Forum Kyoto on 13 May, which can be…
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Losing farmland and forest to a national park
09.05.19Burkina Faso - Part II of six-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST…
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What revolutionizing values could mean for capitalism – and the planet
09.05.19Tim Kasser will speak in a video address for the Global Landscapes Forum Kyoto on…
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Balangiga Farmer – Fisherfolk women learn how to make food products from dried cassava grates
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Who knew so many different products could be made from cassava? Now thanks to the…
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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist
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Food security
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Nutrition
A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that …
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Global Report on Food Crises 2019: Conflict, climate, and economic shocks keep acute hunger levels above 100 million
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With only a slight fall in the number of people facing acute levels of hunger…
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Ann Tutwiler joins WLE as new Steering Committee Chair
07.05.19Former Director General of Bioversity International, Ann Tutwiler, has been appointed the Chair o…
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A different focus on stunting
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Nutrition
Is stunting the problem we need to solve, or the indicator of the problems we…
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Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works prog…
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