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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-
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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As fires rage in Brazil, a new book shows how agroforestry can heal damaged land
18.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Agroforestry systems (AFS), which combine trees and crops on the same land, can increase productivit…
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UN Climate Convention learns of agroforestry for land restoration in Brazil
17.12.19-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Senior scientist Andrew Miccolis shared success stories of restoration with agroforestry, including …
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UN chiefs strengthen collaboration to achieve zero deforestation
13.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Carolina Schmidt, president of the 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Conve…
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Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
12.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that…
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The challenge of ensuring water supply in the Philippines
09.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Creating incentives for communities to help secure water supply is a win-win situation but without…
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International training in agroforestry for policy makers
06.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Twenty-six mid-level policymakers from Africa and Asia — Bangladesh, Botswana, Cambodia, Malawi, M…
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Unveiling the Honghe Innovation Centre for Mountain Futures
05.12.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The sunlight struggled to pierce the dusty air. Faint rows of mango and jujube trees…
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Ethiopia is making maps to help improve soil health
04.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Healthy soils are vital to human survival. They play a pivotal role in feeding global…
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For year round micronutrients, ten species of fruit trees are better than just a few
29.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
A ‘diversity fair’ is not an everyday event, so this one to showcase agrobiodiversity in…
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Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa
27.11.19-
Environmental health
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MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa Nairobi, Kenya, 26 No…
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Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production
27.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Biodiverse agriculture is critical for the survival of the world’s food systems. A new study…
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Students visit PATSPO BSO
26.11.19-
Environmental health
Grade one and two pupils of Lion Heart Academy, Addis Ababa, visited the Provision of…
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
22.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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Agricultural areas affected in Mariana bet on diversifying production
21.11.19According to the forester, the nutrients provided by the different species enrich life in the…
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Transforming agriculture: The role of agroforestry
20.11.19-
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The need to transform our global food system has already been well established. Tony Simons,…
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Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts
20.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
“Essential.” “Obvious.” “The model of the future.” Last month, when more than 1,200 scie…
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In refugee crises, it's crucial to maintain environment and trees
19.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
one right from the start, refugee crises can be managed to minimize damage to the…
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Trees for Food Security Project bearing fruit in Ethiopia
15.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
On 16-17 October 2019, ICRAF’s Interim Regional Coordinator for the Eastern and Southern Africa Re…
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