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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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Public–private–people partnership for cocoa and forests in Côte d’Ivoire
17.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For decades, Côte d’Ivoire has been the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa. Its…
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UN Drylands ambassador calls for greater focus on restoration of tropical drylands
17.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador, called for increased attention on restoring trop…
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Eradicating hunger through the African Orphan Crops Consortium
17.05.19-
Nutrition
Training scientists in advanced plant genomics is set to transform nutrition in Africa. The Food…
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Understanding success in research-for-development projects
17.05.19A new study argues that there are five key success factors that need to be…
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Reasons for low uptake of climate change technologies
25.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Factors such as lack of funding for scale-up are impeding uptake of climate change technologies.…
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Mobilizing youth for forestry development
18.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Youth leaders from the Asia and the Pacific discussed the crucial role of young people…
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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests
17.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
11.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to e…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
09.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
02.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
01.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Mushrooms for prosperity in Chin State
28.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A mushroom research and training programme in Myanmar is aiming to lift farmers out of…
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Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on…
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Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water
22.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers, governments and development agencies are hastening to harness the potential of floodwat…
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BOOK LAUNCH: Towards low-emission landscapes in Viet Nam
21.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For immediate release Bogor, Indonesia, 21 March 2019— A new book celebrates ten years of contr…
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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme
20.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. Th…
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Four Surprising Ways Mode and Gender Can Transform Your Survey Data
19.03.19-
Big data
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Health
Mobile data collection technologies are increasingly being used to collect data remotely. However, t…
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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
18.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid…
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