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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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Change in behaviour needed for improved drought management in Jordan and the MENA region
04.12.19-
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Adopting water-saving technology is not enough on its own to stem groundwater depletion in the…
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Scaling out climate-smart agriculture in southern Africa
04.12.19-
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Adoption rates for climate-smart agricultural practices remain low in many of the countries which st…
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AfricaRice wins prestigious Al-Sumait Prize 2019
28.11.19-
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Recognizing the important role of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) in enhancing food security in…
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
26.11.19-
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Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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Claudia Sadoff featured in Stockholm Water Front
26.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In an interview for the Stockholm Water Front magazine Claudia Sadoff raises awareness of the…
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
22.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
22.11.19-
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The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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Can we ignore risk when we study the effects of climate change on agriculture? Research in Zambia tells us that we should not
20.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries and those im…
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Transforming agriculture: The role of agroforestry
20.11.19-
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The need to transform our global food system has already been well established. Tony Simons,…
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Managing El Niño and La Niña in agriculture in Southeast Asia
15.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Southeast Asian countries are subjected to extreme climatic events such as massive floods or drought…
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Why tree diversity in agroforestry matters: perspectives from the Comoros archipelago
12.11.19-
Biodiversity
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The island of Anjouan in the Comoros has experienced one of the highest deforestation rates…
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Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros archipelago
11.11.19-
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Forming a part of the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot is the island of…
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Policy seminar: The Bridge Collaborative on bringing about bigger change faster
08.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The world faces complex, interwoven development challenges. Issues such as climate change, malnutrit…
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CIFOR and ICRAF join 11,000 scientists to declare ‘climate emergency’
08.11.19-
Biodiversity
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More than 11,000 scientists worldwide signed a paper published by the journal BioScience on Tuesda…
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Participants call experience sharing and on-farm training an “eye-opener”
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Tesfaye Degaga, 54, is a farmer who lives near Meki, a town located in the…
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"Pay attention to nematodes, they have adverse effects on African food security”, scientists warn
07.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Although the world has fully turned its attention to climate change and is continually looking…
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Unity in the face of the global climate crisis: How sharing expert knowledge translates to on-the-ground solutions
01.11.19-
Biodiversity
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In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Healthy diets at risk by expansion of industrial agriculture
31.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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