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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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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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How restoration initiatives begin, again and again
20.03.19-
Environmental health
From teaching students how to use native species to restore landscapes in South America to…
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EU strikes palm oil blow, kids bunk off for their future, air pollution worse than smoking
19.03.19-
Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil’s complex land conflicts Oil palm plantations are…
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A textual digest of new UN resolution for restoration
17.03.19-
Environmental health
In Agenda item 14 in the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly on 1…
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Unlocking the secrets of tropical trees
14.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Tropical forests are magical places. Inside the bustling canopy,…
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GLF digital summit: Women generating the power to energize communities
14.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
BONN, Germany (Landscape News) – Women can generate the power to not only energize themselves…
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Refugee designer leads fashion toward sustainability
13.03.19-
Environmental health
Back in 2014, a curious collection of scarves rippled through the media. But it wasn’t…
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Palm oil’s complex land conflicts
13.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
In an ideal world, palm oil production would cause no deforestation, and have a transparent…
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Orangutan extinction, a rhino resurrection, and using fire to fight fire
12.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: Want to stop climate change? Then…
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International Women’s Day: Indigenous women off the charts
08.03.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
All maps tell a story – a story about our relationship to the land. In…
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Baffled scientists, boreal forest wipeout and Norway ditches dirty palm oil
04.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Dirty palm oil gets ditched by world’s largest pension fund Norway’s Government Pension Fund Glo…
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CIFOR and Indonesia government renew contract to protect forests
04.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
“Forests and forest resources are crucial for Indonesia and the world fighting climate change,” …
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How lab-made fashion is changing landscapes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
Haute couture made out of orange peels. ‘Leather’ shoes and handbags grown from mushrooms. Diamo…
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How to wash your clothes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
So you’ve chosen your outfit with sustainability in mind. Maybe you agonized over the relative…
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Green Climate Fund makes first REDD+ results-based payments to Brazil
27.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s now been over 10 years since countries around the world started to work on…
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Climate smart biofuel production offers financial benefits for local communities
27.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Despite its massive potential as a sustainable source of energy, bioenergy alone cannot fulfill glob…
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Sustainable fashion moving from trend to permanent style
26.02.19-
Environmental health
It’s the end of what’s likely been the ‘greenest’ fashion month yet, with some of…
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Forest dwellers face mass evictions, as species extinction threatens global food supply
25.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Forests News delves into headlines from around the globe: Millions of forest dwellers face eviction…
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Turning on the lights in eastern Indonesia
22.02.19-
Environmental health
As a city dweller in Indonesia, I am blessed with an abundance of privilege. I…
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