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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 SystemsÂ
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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Measuring farm households’ vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks now possible, new research shows
05.06.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Measurement can improve interventions and help smallholder farmers adapt better A household’s vuln…
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Earth’s land use crisis is also a global health crisis: We must include, integrate, incentivize
05.06.20-
Environmental health
Falling in the midst of global crises, this month's World Environment Day brings home the…
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World Environment Day 2020 : Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive and resilient future
05.06.20-
Biodiversity
5 June 2020 : ‘Biodiversity’ involves 8 million plant and animal species, the ecosystems…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
04.06.20-
Environmental health
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Health
BY CLAUDIA SADOFF ANDÂ MARK SMITH Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; …
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Balanced agro-ecosystems strengthen food security
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Preserving biodiversity, and the potential it stores, soils, landscapes, and diets, is one of the m…
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Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental degradation and climate change are major concerns for all countries in the world. The…
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GreenPass puts germplasm distribution in the fast lane
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
The crop diversity in CGIAR’s international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That’s mu…
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Monitoring safeguards at the community-level: are we delivering good or bad change?
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Imagine this scenario: an indigenous people’s organization (IPO) in the Philippines withdrawing it…
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Science and tradition: how indigenous communities manage forests
30.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine a sustainable community-based forest management system — payment for ecosystem services  
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What African farmers and processors say about the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns
29.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Maintaining the dialog with the farming community and industry Farmers and other key stakeholders in…
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Rethink water for SDG 6 and beyond – more urgent than ever
27.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Only if we rethink the paradigms that have guided water policy and investments so far,…
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New multipurpose sorghum variety captures attention in Burkina Faso
26.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
A new variety of sorghum that delivers high yields of grain and stover is gaining…
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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Virtual event: COVID-19 and the global effort to end food loss and waste by 2030
22.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, TINE HASLING RASMUSSEN AND JILLIAN HOLZER Can we meet Sustainable Development…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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