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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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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
24.10.18-
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Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
23.10.18-
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Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Strengthening farmers' seed systems in China
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Dr. Yiching Song, Senior Researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy o…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
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As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
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Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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Policy seminar: Past, present, and future of the commons
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There is a long history of common property, which we can define as resources held…
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Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton: Learning new ways to maintain and use valuable resources
18.10.18-
Biodiversity
A look back at the career of the retiring Head of the T.T. Chang Genetic…
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Giving water a second life
17.10.18-
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Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
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Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
15.10.18-
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On this occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias…
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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
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On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
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(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples, local communities may curb global warming: Reaction to IPCC Report
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Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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Erosion is eating away at African farms. Here’s why measuring the damage is so important
09.10.18-
Environmental health
With severe weather on the rise, farmers and downstream water users are being besieged by…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
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Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Governing forests for sustainability: What works?
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BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — What can 19 reviews assessing 1,200 research articles spanning o…
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Playing a bigger role in global monitoring of SDGs
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UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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