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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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A 4-step plan for spatial planning
13.01.19-
Environmental health
Spatial plans, which organize people and activities within a certain area, are often developed by…
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Protecting Congo’s botanical treasures
11.01.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Congo Basin - Nestled within Africa’s biggest rainforest lies what was once the world’s largest…
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Countering climate change with the cascade effect
09.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade…
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A global community seedbank platform
07.01.19-
Biodiversity
Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Ronnie Vernooy, discusses how Bioversity International and part…
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Reconciling growth with nature’s gifts
07.01.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Experts identify policy gaps in fertilizer application in India
03.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Imbalanced application of different plant nutrients through fertilizers is a widespread problem in I…
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Peatlands for today and tomorrow
02.01.19-
Environmental health
Peatlands are increasingly playing a bigger role in forest conservation thanks to their extraordinar…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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How agricultural research can navigate the perfect storm
26.12.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The world is about to face the perfect storm. Population growth, rising incomes, and urbanization…
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Socioeconomic impacts of tree plantations overwhelmingly negative for local people
24.12.18-
Environmental health
Uruguay - The results are dispiriting, if not unsurprising: a systematic review of the available…
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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste
22.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agr…
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Journal article: Tragedy revisited (Science)
21.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses how games could be used to help people cooperate to sustainably manage…
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Livestock and trees: A more perfect union
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Illustration by Remy Charlip via Pinterest: Cover of Four Fur Feet, written by Margaret Wise Brown.…
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Trees on farms contributing to post-2020 biodiversity framework
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As countries wrapped up discussion at CBD COP 14 in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, the…
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Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool
20.12.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will…
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In Andhra Pradesh, ICRAF starts deep dive into science of Zero-Budget Natural Farming
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra…
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Top of the tree: FTA in 2018
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The year 2018 saw the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) chalk…
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