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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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The unfulfilled promise of farmer-led irrigation: How to include those left behind
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
For more than a decade, we’ve known that when African farmers themselves invest in irrigation,…
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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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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme
20.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. Th…
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We can provide economic incentives to address organic waste, IWMI/WLE tells Colombo business forum
20.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Much of the developing world, including Sri Lanka, is facing an organic waste challenge, but…
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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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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
18.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid…
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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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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
15.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing t…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
15.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakeholder res…
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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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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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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Gender equality
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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The Molecular Maize Atlas encourages genetic diversity
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of…
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Land Degradation Surveillance Framework deployed in Senegal
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Framework is helping farmers and governments monitor the progress of regreening efforts and the…
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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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Sustainable land use systems: A way to help achieve Colombia’s climate change mitigation and peacebuilding goals
12.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Colombia has set ambitious targets to mitigate climate change and achieve stability. One promising a…
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Statement of condolence on the loss of Kodjo Glato, a fine young agricultural scientist from Togo
12.03.19-
Biodiversity
Kodjo Glato was one of 157 passengers and crew who tragically perished in the crash…
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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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