News

29.08.18

Environmental health

If landscape degradation brings huge costs to society and restoration brings impressive returns, why…

Tony Simons, director general, World Agroforestry Centre

We need a revolution in land management, says ICRAF’s Tony Simons

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

29.08.18

Environmental health

Tony Simons is director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), which is based in Nairob…

Diversity from field to fork

29.08.18

Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1UVqf53Yo[/embed]Bioversity International collaborates with…

Bangladesh - Barisal rice farmer. Photo: ulricjoh, Flickr

Webinar: Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

International Potato Center (CIP)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

For most smallholder farmers in the developing world, livelihoods are intertwined with agricultural …

Remembering H.E. Kofi Annan: International statesman and champion of the poor

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

The International Potato Center’s (CIP) management and staff were saddened by the news that H.E.…

Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Biodiversity
Environmental health

Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…

Getting ahead of disaster risks

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…

New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Environmental health
Health

Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…

Cattle in a barn in Bangladesh. Photo credit: IFPRI

New Study: Dairy Intake Reduces Stunting Among Children in Bangladesh

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Health
Nutrition

Washington, D.C.: Milk consumption has a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first…

Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

As food security becomes better assured, and food supply more complex, the negative impacts of…

Congo’s new agro-industrial park isn’t perfect, but deserves a chance to grow

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Food security

BY JOHN ULIMWENGU Despite Africa’s sustained economic growth, spectacular by all standards, its ec…

World Water Week 2018

Environmental health
Food security

Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …

Third AFR100 Annual Partnership meeting delegates

Tanzania and Togo pledge land restoration targets under AFR100

26.08.18

Environmental health

Tanzania and Togo made significant commitments to restore forested landscapes under the AFR100 Initi…

Raising voices for blue forests: A chat with Tanzanian “mangrover” Mwita Mangora

26.08.18

Environmental health

A self-professed “mangrover,” Mwita Mangora lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tan…

Greenpop Malawi tea project conserves soil, water and forests