News
Featured news
-
Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
Read more -
-
CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
Read more -
How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
Read more -
Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
Read more -
New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
Read more -
Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
Read more -
Filters
-
Barking up the same trees: Water and forests 'cannot be separated' in East Africa's Rift Valley
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)18.01.19-
Environmental health
-
Gender equality
Africa - The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their sprin…
Read more -
-
IKEA assembles plan to be carbon negative by 2030
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)16.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
By keeping its design high, prices low, service quick and ice cream fresh at the…
Read more -
-
Has Borneo’s deforestation slowed down?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)15.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Borneo - When people talk about deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, palm oil often gets…
Read more -
-
A 4-step plan for spatial planning
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)13.01.19-
Environmental health
Spatial plans, which organize people and activities within a certain area, are often developed by…
Read more -
-
Protecting Congo’s botanical treasures
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)11.01.19-
Environmental health
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Congo Basin - Nestled within Africa’s biggest rainforest lies what was once the world’s largest…
Read more -
-
How can restoration help solve hunger?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)09.01.19-
Food security
Landscapes need to be restored. The growing global population needs enough food to eat. How…
Read more -
-
Improve peatland management to protect climate, say GLF delegates
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)08.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Bogs, mires, moors, muskegs, peatlands serve as carbon sinks, comprising more than half of all…
Read more -
-
For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)06.01.19-
Food security
In Brazil, the tropical savanna known as the Cerrado has long been under threat from…
Read more -
-
Global climate action is nothing without local backing
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)04.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global climate negotiations take place on the international stage, bolstered by countries’ nationa…
Read more -
-
Peatlands for today and tomorrow
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)02.01.19-
Environmental health
Peatlands are increasingly playing a bigger role in forest conservation thanks to their extraordinar…
Read more -
-
Your top 6 stories of 2018
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)28.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2018, Forest News covered some of the year’s most controversial environmental issues, with scie…
Read more -
-
Socioeconomic impacts of tree plantations overwhelmingly negative for local people
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)24.12.18-
Environmental health
Uruguay - The results are dispiriting, if not unsurprising: a systematic review of the available…
Read more -
-
“Evaluation must be done”
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists attending the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP24 climate talks i…
Read more -
-
Best of Landscape News 2018
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)20.12.18It’s been a year of monumental wake-up calls to climate change, from the melting snows…
Read more -
Peatlands: An appetite to re-wet?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)18.12.18-
Environmental health
Bonn - BONN, Germany – In recent years the role of peatlands in landscape restoration…
Read more -
-
Blue carbon focus could sail Indonesia through Paris targets
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)16.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The next U.N. climate talks will be known as the “blue COP,” said a top…
Read more -
-
The winding path to transformational change
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)13.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In its first 10 years, REDD+ has inspired much enthusiasm and hope for a global…
Read more -
-
Strengthening forest governance is vital for growth of Southeast Asia’s forests
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)10.12.18-
Environmental health
Asia Pacific - Jeffrey Williamson is communications associate with the Center for People and Forest…
Read more -