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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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New highly productive sorghum varieties released
03.07.20-
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Three improved sorghum varieties with a yield potential of approximately 4 tons per hectare and…
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Sacred forests and environmental protection among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia
03.07.20-
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The Gedeo’s sacred forests are conserved for ritual purposes,’ said Yoseph Maru, first author of…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
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By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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Secret to on-off fertility discovered in pigeonpea
26.06.20-
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New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids…
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Economic incentives to resolve conflicts in transboundary flows within watersheds: the case of the Cordilleras in the Philippines
26.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When it comes to property rights, many Philippine forests are open access. This means that…
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ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
Written by Ekta Patel & Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-b…
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Modeling the impacts of new policies on water quality in Burkina Faso
24.06.20-
Environmental health
When scientists turn to modeling, it is to investigate possible scenarios that cannot, for one…
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Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and beyond: ‘We need to amplify the lessons’
23.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Jim Hallett of the Society for Ecological Restoration reviews major recent book by World Agroforestr…
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Local people hold the key to solving Burkina Faso’s water challenges
18.06.20-
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Thanks to its usually abundant rice production, the Kou River Valley has for decades been…
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It's time to take a business model approach to restore Ethiopia's lands
17.06.20-
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The impacts of land degradation are already severe and far reaching. Degraded lands threaten soils,…
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Special Feature: Eyes In The Sky, Farmers Rest Insured
15.06.20-
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Odisha, India: Paddy farmers in Odisha look to the skies with the hope that rain…
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Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China
15.06.20-
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The group shuffled into the exhibition room, eyes flitting across parasitic fungi growing out of…
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Implementing nutrition-sensitive pond polyculture in Zambia: WorldFish teams up with Peace Corps volunteers
13.06.20-
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We sat down with Taryn Cadena and Katharine (Katie) Thomas, two young women who were…
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COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
11.06.20-
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Photo: COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multif…
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Recently published research captures the potential of sustainable seafood commoditization under a new conceptual framework.
09.06.20-
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9 June 2020 - PENANG, MALAYSIA - new research published in Nature Sustainability, introduces the co…
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Ethiopia to grow 5 billion trees in the Second Green Legacy Campaign
09.06.20-
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Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed launched the Second Green Legacy Campaign on 5 June 2020,…
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The powerful alliance between integrated science and traditional food systems
09.06.20-
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The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collec…
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WorldFish celebrates World Oceans Day
08.06.20-
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This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of…
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