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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
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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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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
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A new book, Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India, was lau…
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Business models from the edge: Finding the green in sunshine, soil and sludge
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This week marks World Environment Day, and we search for solutions on how to better…
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World Environment Day: The need for strong institutions and policies to restore and protect planetary health
05.06.19-
Environmental health
Originally published on the International Food Policy Research Institute blog. As people and …
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A burning issue: How sustainable agriculture is helping mitigate air pollution in South Asia
04.06.19-
Environmental health
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Pollution has become a part of our daily life: particulate matter in the air we…
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Biodiversity’s freshwater connection
03.06.19-
Biodiversity
A key role for sustainable water management in curbing species extinction.…
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Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves
26.05.19-
Biodiversity
It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
25.05.19-
Environmental health
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Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women
24.05.19-
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Gender equality
Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…
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In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?
23.05.19-
Biodiversity
Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…
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Possible pathways for development in Africa: What's missing?
23.05.19-
Biodiversity
This week the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Coming on the heels…
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Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
The fascinating diversity of maize in Mexico is rooted in its cultural and biological legacy…
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Recipes to the rescue
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to lev…
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Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biol…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In his first blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, recognizes the…
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Behind the scenes of new BBC series “Dynasties”
21.05.19-
Biodiversity
Every living thing on this planet has a family, but some species will fight to…
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
20.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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For Immediate Release New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions…
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