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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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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
02.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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Jinping soy price threatens Amazon, Trump, and methane releasing trees
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: Between the land of the free…
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
01.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Can DRC’s community forests lift people out of poverty?
29.03.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the quest to reduce poverty, community forestry is an attractive endeavor. So much so…
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Mushrooms for prosperity in Chin State
28.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A mushroom research and training programme in Myanmar is aiming to lift farmers out of…
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Prosperity grows in arid Wonogiri
27.03.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The tamanu tree [Calophyllum inophyllum] has been helping humans out since prehistoric times. Also k…
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Oil: Green deceit and a Trump defeat...did climate change cause Cyclone Idai?
26.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: International Day of Forests: Two heads look to a future…
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Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on…
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Rice-fish farming could help boost farmers’ income in Myanmar’s “rice bowl”
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
MAUBIN Township, Myanmar—Aquaculture production in rice-based cropping systems could potentially b…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar work together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa
24.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Among East Africa’s biodiversity hotspots is the Desa’a forest, which borders Tigray and Afar in…
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How much do you REALLY know about water and forests?
22.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
What better way to celebrate today's World Water Day and yesterday's International Day of Forests,…
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Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water
22.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers, governments and development agencies are hastening to harness the potential of floodwat…
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How can rubber contribute to sustainable development in a context of climate change?
22.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Developing the rubber sector while meeting environment and social objectives involves both challenge…
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Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
India’s northwest region is the most important production area for two staple cereals: rice and…
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BOOK LAUNCH: Towards low-emission landscapes in Viet Nam
21.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For immediate release Bogor, Indonesia, 21 March 2019— A new book celebrates ten years of contr…
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What’s good for business is good for forests in Indonesia
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Scientists in Indonesia are demonstrating how better business opportunities for local communities ca…
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International Forests Day: Two heads look to a future of restoration
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
This article is written by Robert Nasi , Director-General of Center for International Forestry Resea…
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