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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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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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Restoring land in Africa an opportunity for women’s rights, says president of women’s forest network
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Environmental health
Deforestation and land degradation amount to almost a third of Africa’s landmass, which has a…
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Q+A: The backstory on invasive plant species with CABI’s Arne Witt
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Environmental health
Invasive plant species pose a major threat to biodiversity, water resources, food security, e…
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Hanging in the balance: Preservation, restoration and sustainable management in Indonesian peatlands
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The protection of peatland ecosystems, which store “disproportionate” amounts of carbon, is vita…
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Ethiopia’s new forestry law: A win for landscapes and livelihoods?
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia - The Ethiopian government has a big dream: restoring 22 million hectares of degraded…
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Kofi Annan leaves legacy as champion for landscape restoration in Africa
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Environmental health
As the world pays tribute and honors the life of Kofi Annan, many will remember…
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Sustainably managing non-timber products to improve livelihoods, equity and forests
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
New Guidelines for Equitable and Sustainable Non-timber Forest Product Management offer field-tested…
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Afro roots artist Rocky Dawuni rocks for landscape restoration at GLF Nairobi
17.08.18Ghanaian-born musician and humanitarian activist Rocky Dawuni will perform for the world’s top e…
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High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
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Environmental health
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Food security
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so th…
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Values-based youth leadership education key to environmental sustainability: Wangari Maathai Foundation chair
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Environmental health
Forest cover in Kenya is declining at an alarming rate, mainly due to poor forest…
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How a Payment for Ecosystem Services mechanism protects nature in Philippines
16.08.18Indigenous residents of Mindanao in the Philippines are involved in a unique Payment for Ecosystems…
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Muddy waters: Exploring mangrove governance in Tanzania’s Rufiji Delta and beyond
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Environmental health
Occupying the murky boundaries between land and sea, mangroves have often been devalued as pesky…
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National Planning Commission and IRRI-Nepal hold round table meeting to discuss five-year work plan on the country’s rice agri-food system
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Food security
For more than 50 years, IRRI has been working with Nepal in providing improved germplasm…
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How far has Indonesia come on peatland conservation and restoration?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The joint need to protect remaining peatlands while restoring degraded lands resounded t…
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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
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Health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO AND SARA GUSTAFSON The countries that make up the G20 account for around…
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Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The state of the earth’s biodiversity – the world’s variety of living organisms – is…
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IRRI celebrates National Nutrition Month in the Philippines
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Food security
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Nutrition
Nutrition awareness ramps up in the Philippines during the annual celebration of National Nutrition …
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
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Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This post originally appeared in The Conversation in light of the 21st World Congress on Soil…
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Women at work
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nepal - Nestled in Nepal’s southern subtropical Terai lowlands, Chitwan National Park looks worlds…
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