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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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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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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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CIFOR scientist Daniel Murdiyarso honored with Sarwono Award
05.09.18Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Principal Scientist Daniel Murdiyarso has been aw…
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Acknowledge difference between tree and land tenure to enhance landscapes, urge GLF delegates
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Environmental health
Land tenure rights are widely recognized as being central to advancing sustainable development goals…
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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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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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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
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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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UN Environment chief backs proposed U.N. Decade for Ecosystem Restoration
23.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A decade devoted to promoting the rehabilitation of degraded, damaged and destroyed ecosystem…
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Dangerous times for eco-defenders
22.08.18-
Environmental health
Indigenous leader Isidro Baldenegro Lopez tried to protect the old-growth forests of the Sierra Mad…
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Top takeaways from mangroves expert Salomão Bandeira on community restoration
22.08.18-
Environmental health
Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with …
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Breaking new ground for sustainable architecture in Central Africa
21.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - All over Central Africa, it is a common sight…
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Community key for successful mangrove restoration, says Lalao Aigrette of Blueventures Madagascar
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Environmental health
Traveling between remote islands by dugout canoe, and trudging through muddy mangrove forests in 40-…
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Mad about mangroves: scientist James Kairo
21.08.18-
Environmental health
A self-proclaimed “ambassador for mangroves,” scientist James Kairo has been swapping bet…
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On the road back from ‘safari science’ to embedded collaboration
20.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As demand for commodities rises, landscapes are changing quickly as natural forests are felled for…
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