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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-
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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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From commitments to action to fight climate change in Central Africa
02.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The 2015 U.N. climate change conference was a historic moment in which the world agreed…
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World’s leading forestry and agroforestry organizations merge for accelerated impact against climate change
01.12.18Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and International Centre for Research in Agrofore…
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How will we finance the New Deal for Nature?
30.11.18-
Biodiversity
The CBD estimates up to US$440 billion is needed annually to meet commitments in the…
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More than 100,000 installations of BiodiversityR: growing a better understanding of biodiversity
30.11.18-
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Biodiversity
Based on daily package downloads made available for the RStudio mirror server since 1 October…
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SundayTimes.lk: What’s next now that Colombo’s an official Wetland City?
30.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
International recognition for Colombo and the other newly named Wetland Cities brings both benefits …
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West Bengal agri-entrepreneur a role model for farmers in her community
29.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Hosneara Bibi is a farmer in the village of West Ghughumari, in the Cooch Behar…
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WEBINAR: Community forest concessions in Petén, Guatemala: Effective governance for tropical forest conservation and socio-economic development
29.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The devolution of forest rights to local communities is seen as a critical element of…
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Cracking the problem of tree seeds
29.11.18-
Biodiversity
The World Agroforestry Centre's genebank hosts the world’s largest holdings of agroforestry tree g…
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Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
29.11.18-
Big data
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, however,…
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Lancet Countdown 2018 report shows concerning trends in heat and heat waves, infectious disease and declining food security
29.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is a multidisciplinary, interna…
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Delivering more with less: Subnational service provision in low capacity states
28.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The new paper examines how subnational variation in capacity affects access to agricultural extensio…
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New Director General of Bioversity International and Chief Executive Officer Designate of the Alliance between CIAT and Bioversity International
28.11.18Juan Lucas Restrepo has been appointed to the position of Director General of Bioversity Internation…
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Nations urged to accelerate efforts to wipe out hunger and malnutrition
28.11.18-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
With hunger and obesity on the rise, a global forum aims to catalyze urgent action…
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The International Center for Tropical Agriculture and Bioversity International name CEO
28.11.18Juan Lucas Restrepo will become Bioversity International’s Director General in March 2019. In 2020…
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New Director General for Bioversity International and Alliance CEO announced
28.11.18Juan Lucas Restrepo will join Bioversity International as Director General in March 2019, and will…
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Mexico’s REDD+ still highly centralized
28.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Mexico - Mexico was among the first countries to launch a strategy for reducing greenhouse…
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A Roadmap for Latin America and the Caribbean
27.11.18This new roadmap explains CIAT’s primary research themes: food systems, agroecosystems and landsca…
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Ambitious steps to control climate change may pose food security risks in the near term
27.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world faces a series of mounting challenges if it is to head off impacts…
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