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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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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
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Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
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The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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Earth Day 2020: Lessons for human survival from a pandemic and a global environment under stress
21.04.20-
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BY WEI ZHANG, ELIZABETH BRYAN, CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The 50th anniversary of Ea…
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
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In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
20.04.20-
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As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
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Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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FEATURE: Organizing farmers into tree-based enterprises
14.04.20-
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The Philippine Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) is a hu…
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Disease outbreaks linked to degraded ecosystems: A problem ALL of us are driving and ALL of us need to solve
14.04.20-
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Kenya’s wildlife-rich rangelands with cattle and wildlife (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). ‘W…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
08.04.20-
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While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Hari Upadhyaya: The fearless breeder in the genebank
08.04.20-
Biodiversity
As a young man growing up in the village of Shiwala in India’s Uttar Pradesh,…
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Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities
30.03.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a ten-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good…
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Participants appreciate the practicality of training in seed procurement
27.03.20-
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Participants of a training course organized by the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio (PATS…
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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
21.03.20-
Biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises. Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places…
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The role of agroforestry in forest restoration
20.03.20-
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The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) was launched in 201…
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2020 the Year of #Water4Climate
20.03.20-
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This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the…
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
16.03.20-
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The future of food production is an urgent issue. Imagine that our ecosystems deteriorate to…
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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
11.03.20-
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Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and…
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