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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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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Crop research needs a system of integrated labs across the globe
11.04.18-
Environmental health
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BY MARK ROSEGRANT Despite advances in agricultural productivity thanks to higher and more stable cro…
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Sustainable land bonds may offer a fresh path forward
11.04.18-
Environmental health
Tropical forest countries could soon use a new financial mechanism to access the capital they…
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The business case for seed – a public-private partnership takes root in Kenya
11.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in developing countries often lack access to certified disease-free planting material for ro…
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Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam
11.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites …
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How to develop and manage your own community seedbank
11.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ronnie Vernooy, Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Bioversity International, reports on a new hand…
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‘Contour bunding’ preserves soils and boosts farmers’ incomes by 20% in Mali – new study
11.04.18-
Food security
A new study by ICRISAT scientists in Mali has found that ‘contour bunding’, technique helps…
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Counting down: Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ loss of Borneo orangutans
10.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Once, there were hundreds of thousands of orangutans roaming the island of Borneo. Over the…
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
10.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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Using cognitive testing to improve measurement of women’s empowerment in nutrition and health
10.04.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In this blog post, Anika Hannan, a soon-to-be MPH graduate from Emory University, discusses cogniti…
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Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity?
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Humans generate heaps of waste every day. Waste rich in energy, nutrients, or water. Most…
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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration o…
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Soil health scheme for farmers in Odisha – to benefit 4.35 million farmers in 30 districts
09.04.18-
Environmental health
Bhoochetana, an initiative that has transformed lives of several million farmers in Karnataka, is no…
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Small businesses embrace “green” practices without financial incentives, survey shows
06.04.18Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a significant self-initiated role in sustainable and enviro…
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What can we learn from rising rice production in Senegal?
06.04.18-
Food security
BY KATRIN GLATZEL Ndèye lives in a small town in northern Senegal, close to the…
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Scaling sustainable rice farming practices to achieve food security in Asia
06.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
JAKARTA, Indonesia— Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food a…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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