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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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Drylands Development Programme: changed lives in the Sahel
15.07.19-
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Many farming families in dryland Africa have been struggling to feed themselves and lead a…
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Ernesto Morón: cultivating timber trees in the Peruvian Amazon
11.07.19-
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Recently, researchers of the FuenteS project visited the farm of Ernesto Morón, who is producing…
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Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia
09.07.19-
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Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken…
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
04.07.19-
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Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
28.06.19-
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The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
22.06.19-
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It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19-
Biodiversity
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In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19-
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Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Where — and why — is agroforestry hiding?
12.06.19-
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Agroforestry, a land-management system that couples the growth of trees and shrubs with crops and…
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World Congress on Agroforestry kicks off today
05.06.19-
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Monday 20 May 2019, Montpellier, France– The Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry opens today. …
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
05.06.19-
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A new book, Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India, was lau…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
25.05.19-
Environmental health
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Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
22.05.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
20.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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For Immediate Release New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions…
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Agroforestry at 40: The institutional evolution of World Agroforestry in research, development, policy and delivery
19.05.19The institutional evolution of World Agroforestry for the two thousand and tens decade is a…
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Looking for the right tree for the right place? Agroforestry Species Switchboard Version 2
18.05.19-
Nutrition
The updated Agroforestry Species Switchboard is a ‘one-stop shop’ to retrieve data about plant s…
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