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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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Diversity from field to fork
29.08.18-
Nutrition
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1UVqf53Yo[/embed]Bioversity International collaborates with…
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Webinar: Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For most smallholder farmers in the developing world, livelihoods are intertwined with agricultural …
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Remembering H.E. Kofi Annan: International statesman and champion of the poor
28.08.18The International Potato Center’s (CIP) management and staff were saddened by the news that H.E.…
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Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia
28.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…
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Getting ahead of disaster risks
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…
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New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores
27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…
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New Study: Dairy Intake Reduces Stunting Among Children in Bangladesh
27.08.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Milk consumption has a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first…
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Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems
27.08.18-
Food security
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Health
As food security becomes better assured, and food supply more complex, the negative impacts of…
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Congo’s new agro-industrial park isn’t perfect, but deserves a chance to grow
27.08.18-
Food security
BY JOHN ULIMWENGU Despite Africa’s sustained economic growth, spectacular by all standards, its ec…
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World Water Week 2018
27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …
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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…
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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…
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Greenpop Malawi tea project conserves soil, water and forests
25.08.18-
Environmental health
Despite agriculture accounting for 70 percent of Africa’s annual loss of 2.8 million hectares o…
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‘Historic’ India Millet Mission campaign to begin in September
25.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Road-map for National Year of Millets 2018, presented The largest producer of millets in the…
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Teff love: Ethiopia’s staple crop requires a big push
24.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BART MINTEN, ALEMAYEHU SEYOUM TAFFESSE AND SMITA AGGARWAL Not long ago, teff—the gluten-free,…
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Irrigation technology investments without accompanying policies might worsen water scarcity, new study finds
24.08.18-
Environmental health
Washington D.C.: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing t…
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EAC launches policy briefs on aflatoxin prevention and control developed with IITA
23.08.18-
Food security
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Health
A set of policy briefs outlining key strategic policy recommendations and actions to prevent and…
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UN Environment chief backs proposed U.N. Decade for Ecosystem Restoration
23.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A decade devoted to promoting the rehabilitation of degraded, damaged and destroyed ecosystem…
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