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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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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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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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Biodiversity loss threatens future of food
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The precious biodiversity that sustain our food systems is in decline, according to first-ever glo…
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“Act now to halt and reverse the unsustainable use of nature” – videos bring to life groundbreaking biodiversity report
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
To protect the future of food, water and quality of life, the world needs to…
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Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast by examining alternative crops in the lower Gangetic plains
22.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Wheat blast — one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases — is moving swiftly into ne…
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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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Navigating the road to socially inclusive hydropower
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Asia Times opinion article reports insights from new research in Nepal.…
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Groundwater and sustainable development
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
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Launching today—CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Launching today in Kenya is a CGIAR AMR Hub for powering global, national and local…
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Fine-tuning flood risk management
20.02.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
New rounds of pilot testing and post-flood recovery in India.…
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Tension and transformation in the patriarchy
20.02.19-
Environmental health
Kenya - When Jackline Cheplang’at began teaching fellow community members about gender and conserv…
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FTA welcomes new Independent Steering Committee member Richard Stanislaus Muyungi
20.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) has welcomed a new member…
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Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
19.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Trees nurture nutrition
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Environmental health
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Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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Talk shows and text messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
15.02.19-
Environmental health
This story is the second in a three-part series. Read part one, Barking up the…
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Tree love this Valentine’s Day
14.02.19-
Environmental health
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Resear…
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Valentine’s Day Special: Can chocolate survive climate change?
13.02.19-
Environmental health
Chocolate is at the top of shopping lists for Valentine’s Day, most of us gifting…
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