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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Too big to ignore: Why gender matters in Malawi’s fragile Lake Chilwa Basin
02.11.18The effects of climate change are felt differently by men and women. As a result,…
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Policy seminar: Exploring agriculture’s key role in reducing poverty
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural development is among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and is central to…
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Why cows are getting a bad rap in lab-grown meat debate
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A small-scale production line of the leghemoglobin for a plant-based hamburger is displayed during a…
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Designing gender-sensitive and climate-smart technologies: a must for the future of Guatemalan agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A recent National Geographic article opened with the shocking headline: “Changing climate forces d…
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Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts …
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Discover what urban wetlands are worth
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Environmental health
[caption id="attachment_139075" align="alignnone" width="300"] Colombo Wetlands Complex[/capt…
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World Cities Day: Growing urban poor populations face unique nutrition challenges
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Food security
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Nutrition
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This…
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It's Time for a Change in the Breeding Mindset
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Food security
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Nutrition
"Today the challenge has changed: We need to address an ever growing population, under a…
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NEW STUDY: Dispelling Cash Transfer Myths in Africa
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Unconditional cash transfers paid to vulnerable populations as regular, predictabl…
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit: BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
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Environmental health
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Food security
(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Design features of successful social protection programs
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rooted in the notion that most poor Africans reside in rural areas and earn their…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
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Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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Small-scale fisheries guidelines represent voyage of struggle, empathy and support
29.10.18The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries were the first sector-specif…
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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers at Africa Water Week call for efforts to “decolonize” and improve water permit syste…
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7th Africa Water Week
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Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
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Health
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Nutrition
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major…
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