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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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Termitomyces: exploring the world’s most mysterious mushroom
03.08.20-
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Researchers are readying to shine light on the world’s ‘dark matter’ — fungi — and…
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Drought-prone landscape turns green
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Kalahandi district in Odisha, India, has suffered from repeated droughts and famines for several dec…
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Designing resilient farming systems that can better meet farmers’ complex needs and confront future challenges
31.07.20-
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What strategies should farmers take in order to improve their resilience to climate change and…
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COVID-19 and food security | Limiting the impact of the crisis on rice value chains in West Africa
30.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 30 July 2020 -- Rice plays a strategic role in food…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects
27.07.20-
Environmental health
The Agrobiodiversity Index and the Enhancing Sustainability Across Agricultural Systems of the Water…
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West Africa: Smarter investments in small reservoirs needed
27.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Small reservoirs allow West African farmers to irrigate their fields and water their livestock. They…
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Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali
24.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A study by scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Mopti, Segou and Sikasso, located in cent…
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Expert-assisted Decision Analysis supports agroforestry in Viet Nam
20.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Selecting appropriate practices for specific locations that are aligned with the needs, values and p…
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A library for understanding the soils of the world
19.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
New soil spectral library addresses global food supply through advanced soil analysis. A breakthroug…
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How tech and modern market mechanisms can solve water scarcity in post-Soviet states
18.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Uzbekistan is an incredibly dry country, receiving an annual rainfall of just 100 to 300…
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How to feed a growing global population in the midst of a climate crisis
17.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
We have all heard the figures: by 2050, the world’s population is expected to increase…
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Only fair oceans can strengthen people and planet, argue researchers in new report
17.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A reset on ocean governance is needed to support a healthy and thriving relationship between…
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Coconut bashing?
15.07.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the worlds’ coconut beaches are all very quiet from the pause in global tourism…
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Expanding and improving Genesys
10.07.20-
Biodiversity
Genesys, the online portal for information on genebank samples, is constantly evolving. First launch…
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Success Through Seaweed in Bangladesh
10.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
This is ECOFISH II interventions as per approved alternate income-generating activities AIGAs throug…
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Fourteen breeding seed orchards already established in Ethiopia
07.07.20-
Biodiversity
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The Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio in Ethiopia project, led by World Agroforestry (ICRA…
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Facing COVID-19 in the highlands of Madagascar: How are the rural households and women coping?
03.07.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Contributed by Gaudiose Mujawamariya, Rice Value Chain Expert and Gender Focal Point, and Irina Andr…
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