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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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Environmental health
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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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On the need for expanding sustainability frameworks and veterinary vision in developing countries
24.04.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Divine bovine, painting by Karen Bezuidenhout. A new science paper argues for broadening traditional…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
23.04.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long…
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Social forestry impacts local livelihoods in Indonesia
23.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
In a two-part series, the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forests News examin…
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Earth Day, Animal Day
23.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
23.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…
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A Ponzi scheme with Nature?
23.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A few months back, we shared our first impressions of new research on the Zambian…
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
21.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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Earth Day 2018: Solar-powered irrigation can boost rural development, but also poses risks
20.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural productio…
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‘Living tools’ at the frontier of vaccine development—A Keystone Symposium workshop by Vish Nene
20.04.18-
Health
Health for Animals and the World Veterinary Association launched the first annual World Animal Vacci…
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Global emissions targets in focus at rainforest summit in Indonesia
19.04.18-
Environmental health
Discussions at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) in Indonesia next week will kick off with…
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GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis
19.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…
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Enhancing seed quality in Sri Lanka through improved drying and storage
19.04.18-
Food security
IRRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations through the Closing Rice…
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Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
19.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than…
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Youth migration and labor constraints in African agrarian households
18.04.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The new paper investigates how youth migration in Ethiopia and Malawi affects household labor, hired…
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In REDD+ villages, women say their wellbeing has declined
17.04.18-
Gender equality
Climate change interventions in forest communities are still not getting it right when it comes…
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Is Ghana serious about decentralization?
17.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DANIELLE RESNICK On March 15, Ghana celebrated the creation of 38 new metropolitan, municipal,…
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Is waste the next big business opportunity?
17.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness waste to help fill the world’s…
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Two women scientists to receive ICRISATs highest scientific award
17.04.18-
Gender equality
Dr Mamta Sharma and Dr Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur are joint recipients of the Doreen Margaret Mashler…
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