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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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Can forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa?
02.06.19Africa - Agriculture continues to present the biggest threat to forests worldwide. Some experts pred…
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Forests rise as climate solutions in Asia and the Pacific
31.05.19The land use sector is crucial to confronting climate change, with forests providing the single…
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Firewood for income in a degrading landscape
31.05.19Ghana - Part V of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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Cameroon forest superfood scores best for women’s health
29.05.19Cameroon - When Caleb Yengo Tata travelled to the remote Takamanda rainforest region in southwest…
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In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant’s future
27.05.19With its graceful arches blanketed by a landscape garden and reflected in the shimmering pond…
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Restore Indigenous land rights to unlock traditional knowledge and repair ecosystems
27.05.19Despite general acceptance by scientists, governments and investors that traditional knowledge is as…
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Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves
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Biodiversity
It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…
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In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?
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Biodiversity
Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…
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Seeing the forest, not just the trees
22.05.19Nature-based solutions such as ecosystem restoration will play an indispensable role in addressing c…
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Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species, says new study
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It is widely assumed that land uses that increase carbon in biomass and soil to…
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Behind the scenes of new BBC series “Dynasties”
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Biodiversity
Every living thing on this planet has a family, but some species will fight to…
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It isn’t too late…but the clock is ticking
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
“We have about twenty years to change our acts before something irreversible happens,” said Rob…
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Landscape restoration: Is it working?
19.05.19A recent study by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Edinburgh…
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Indigenous youth explore human rights challenges in ‘Through Their Eyes’ book
17.05.19Victor Lopez-Carmen, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and the…
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Keeping the peace in a national park buffer zone
17.05.19Burkina Faso - Part III of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST…
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Landscape restoration expensive, exhausting – essential
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
For more on GLF Kyoto, read about Act I and Act II. Landscape restoration is…
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It’s not too late to reverse climate change, but the clock is ticking
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Recent studies find that the prevention of irreversible climate catastrophes require the world’s p…
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In climate discussions, a pause to feel the change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A Brazilian panel on fashion streamed live from Sao Paolo. The Mayor of Kyoto announcing…
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