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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Tiny pest-killing wasps for Asia’s cassava crop ease anxieties on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
31.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KRIS WYCKHUYS An announcement for a new Broadway comedy? An economics-inspired sequel to A Bug…
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Support El Salvador bid for U.N. decade of ecosystem restoration: UN Environment chief
30.08.18-
Environmental health
In his address to delegates at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference in Nairobi, head…
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“Voices of the Landscape” at GLF offer insights into community restoration initiatives
30.08.18-
Environmental health
The Voices of the Landscape plenary at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference in Nairobi on …
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ElPais.com: What to do in the absence of water
30.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
No development is possible without it. And more than 5,000 million people could suffer scarcity…
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GLF Nairobi shines spotlight on communities in Africa restoring degraded landscapes
29.08.18-
Environmental health
Africa loses 2.8 million hectares of forest each year, an area roughly the size of…
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Stronger political commitments, rural governance key to landscape restoration: One World – No Hunger envoy
29.08.18-
Environmental health
We have the necessary technical knowledge to restore landscapes, said deputy director-general and co…
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CIFOR director general urges paradigm shift to meet landscape restoration goals
29.08.18-
Environmental health
If landscape degradation brings huge costs to society and restoration brings impressive returns, why…
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We need a revolution in land management, says ICRAF’s Tony Simons
29.08.18-
Environmental health
Tony Simons is director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), which is based in Nairob…
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Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia
28.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…
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Getting ahead of disaster risks
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…
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New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores
27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…
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World Water Week 2018
27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …
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Tanzania and Togo pledge land restoration targets under AFR100
26.08.18-
Environmental health
Tanzania and Togo made significant commitments to restore forested landscapes under the AFR100 Initi…
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Raising voices for blue forests: A chat with Tanzanian “mangrover” Mwita Mangora
26.08.18-
Environmental health
A self-professed “mangrover,” Mwita Mangora lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tan…
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Greenpop Malawi tea project conserves soil, water and forests
25.08.18-
Environmental health
Despite agriculture accounting for 70 percent of Africa’s annual loss of 2.8 million hectares o…
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Irrigation technology investments without accompanying policies might worsen water scarcity, new study finds
24.08.18-
Environmental health
Washington D.C.: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing t…
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Can we actually measure resilience?
23.08.18-
Environmental health
Resilience is a concept that is being applied to many different domains, from infrastructure’s res…
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How to pay for watershed rehabilitation
23.08.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands pay a high price for reduced land productivity caused by…
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