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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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Countering climate change with the cascade effect
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Environmental health
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Food security
Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade…
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Improve peatland management to protect climate, say GLF delegates
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Bogs, mires, moors, muskegs, peatlands serve as carbon sinks, comprising more than half of all…
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“Green manure” cover crops – why they deserve a second chance
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Food security
What goes around comes around! Green manure cover crops – or GMCCs, as we affectionately…
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The Concept of Women’s Rights and the Fight for Equality: The Nigerian Perspective
08.01.19On the morning of December 3rd 1929, Nnayereuwa, a woman from the Aba region of…
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A global community seedbank platform
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Biodiversity
Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Ronnie Vernooy, discusses how Bioversity International and part…
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Reconciling growth with nature’s gifts
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Environmental health
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Health
Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.…
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For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help
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Food security
In Brazil, the tropical savanna known as the Cerrado has long been under threat from…
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Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political newcomers…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Kids work to end hunger (Farmers' Advance)
04.01.19Jan 2, 2019 In the News Kids work to end hunger (Farmers' Advance) Farmers' Advance…
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Concerns intensify over food producers' impact on environment (Financial Times)
04.01.19Jan 2, 2019 In the News Concerns intensify over food producers' impact on environment (Financia…
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Eradicating hunger: Possible in Nepal (The Himalayan Times)
04.01.19Jan 4, 2019 In the News Eradicating hunger: Possible in Nepal (The Himalayan Times) The…
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Every diet comes like a cult, says Rujuta Diwekar (The Hindu)
04.01.19Jan 3, 2019 In the News Every diet comes like a cult, says Rujuta Diwekar…
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Competitive elections are good for democracy--just not every democracy (The Conversation)
04.01.19Jan 4, 2019 In the News Competitive elections are good for democracy--just not every democracy…
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Global climate action is nothing without local backing
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global climate negotiations take place on the international stage, bolstered by countries’ nationa…
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04.01.19http://www.pinlue.com/article/2018/12/2707/077951276842.html 品略27 Dec 2018…
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Receding Malawi lake lays bare cost of climate change
04.01.19http://en.brinkwire.com/news/receding-malawi-lake-lays-bare-cost-of-climate-chan...Brinkwire26 Dec 2…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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