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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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
16.05.25-
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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Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects less…
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Standing tall: Bamboo from restoration to economic development
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Can grass be used to make tissues, furniture, pipes and even housing? Can it help…
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The role of gender equality in accelerating progress on SDG2
10.12.18-
Gender equality
There is a growing body of evidence that documents the linkages between SDG5 on gender…
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In the Peruvian Amazon, aspirations become reality with the first Agroforestry Concessions for smallholders
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Authorities from the Regional Government of San Martín and the National Forest and Wildlife Service…
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Strengthening forest governance is vital for growth of Southeast Asia’s forests
10.12.18-
Environmental health
Asia Pacific - Jeffrey Williamson is communications associate with the Center for People and Forest…
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What's next for the world's first official Wetland Cities?
09.12.18-
Environmental health
International recognition for Colombo and the other newly named Wetland Cities brings both benefits …
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Policy Advantage: Enabling a food systems transformation
08.12.18"Nothing will change if nothing changes, and any change that does not include a change…
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PIM Flagship Notes 2018: Overview and recent achievements
07.12.18-
Food security
Six newly released two-page brochures, representing each of the PIM research areas ('flagships'), gi…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral approach improves child growth in Guatemala
07.12.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a beha…
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Which are the right crops to enable food security under future climates?
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A new paper sets out to determine if crop-specific research investments can be prioritized to…
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Call to action: more trees to restore landscapes and improve livelihoods in northern Ghana
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
“There is an urgent need in northern Ghana for metro, municipal and district assemblies, NGOs…
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Livestock and silvopastoral systems in Latin America: how to measure the greenhouse gases
07.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers are sharing knowledge about how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock and in…
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CSA Investment Advantage: Identifying best-bets
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The transformation needed in the agriculture sector to address climate change requires the identific…
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Gender equality vital part of forest-based climate action, says CIFOR scientist at COP24
06.12.18-
Environmental health
Poland - KATOWICE, Poland — Failing to address gender equality in forest- and tree-based climate…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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New inspection and certification facility aims to boost fish trade in Africa
06.12.18WorldFish and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) will today launch the…
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Transforming food systems under a changing climate: building consensus on action
06.12.18The theme of agriculture inhabits a growing space within UN climate negotiations, for instance throu…
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