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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
15.08.18-
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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
15.08.18-
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
15.08.18-
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
15.08.18-
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
14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nepal - Nestled in Nepal’s southern subtropical Terai lowlands, Chitwan National Park looks worlds…
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
14.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN After many years of rapid growth, serious trade tensions have emerged between…
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Some strategic approaches to land restoration
14.08.18-
Environmental health
An estimated 340 million hectares of woody vegetation are degraded across Africa’s fragile dry are…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Pathways from Agricultural Research to Poverty Reduction: A Bigger Set of ‘Food Systems’ Thinking is Required
14.08.18-
Food security
In this interview, Tom Tomich, ex-ISPC member and Professor and Director, Agricultural Sustainabilit…
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Understanding gender norms and innovation processes to foster gender-equitable opportunities in forest landscapes
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Gender researchers present findings from Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan that shed light on how gender norm…
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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern Chi…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Bridging worlds through environmental activism
13.08.18-
Environmental health
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who will speak at the upcoming Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, has…
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In Central Africa, public procurement can boost demand for legal wood
13.08.18Africa - Central African governments and their development partners account for a significant propor…
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Nepal to adopt intensive rice farming technologies to achieve food security
13.08.18-
Food security
As part of his South Asia travel, IRRI’s Director General Matthew Morell had the opportunity…
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An app to help African rice farmers beat weeds
13.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice recently launched a powerful decision-support tool, called RiceAdvice-WeedManager, to hel…
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Community benefits key to landscape restoration, CIFOR forest governance researcher says
12.08.18-
Environmental health
Almost a third of Africa’s land mass is degraded due to human activities – including…
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Forests in policy: A tale of three clusters
12.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
From providing clean water to sustaining agriculture and regulating the climate, forests have an imp…
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Ancient Amazon farming methods offer lessons for rainforest conservation, scientists say
11.08.18-
Environmental health
Ancient peoples sustainably farmed the Amazon more than four millennia ago, according to a new…
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