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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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Charting the Path to Peace: Who Bears the Burden of Climate Variability in Indonesia?
23.11.20-
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Written by Grazia Pacillo. Image credit: IRRI CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security explores the role of…
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A Partnership Agenda for Climate Security
18.11.20-
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Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Climate Security in the Sahel
18.11.20-
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Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Sustainable Finance for Peace
27.08.20-
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Written by Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CIAT CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security explores the role of…
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The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
25.08.20-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Written by Alexandra Krendelsberger and Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CGIAR CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security…
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Harnessing digital tools for climate and agriculture
05.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A “technological boom” without missing fundamentals Digital tools (DTs) in agriculture to educat…
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How and why to merge ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance?
22.07.20-
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The pertinence of ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance couldn’t be more timely considering th…
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When mothers learn from babies
08.07.20-
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In Chebvute, Zimbabwe the CIMMYT has established trials to test the effectiveness and productivity o…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
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The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Towards a National Watershed and Agroforestry Multi-Stakeholder Platform in Ethiopia
22.10.19-
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Agriculture is the mainstay of Ethiopia’s economy, contributing 41% of the country's gross domesti…
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Measuring the climate impact of our diet choices
17.10.19-
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The recently concluded 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture was not a usual sc…
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IPSNews.net: Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect Storm?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Those of us who work on water issues in (the global) South understand that there…
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De-risking agricultural value chains using climate-smart agriculture
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In April 2019, professionals from the soft commodity sectors who represent diverse value chains acro…
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Trainings in climate services for agriculture reach all of Rwanda
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The human body can predict. You can look to the sky and know it will…
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Much to gain from reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania
11.03.19-
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The incredible scale of global food loss and waste – an estimated one-third of food…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
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Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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Baffled scientists, boreal forest wipeout and Norway ditches dirty palm oil
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Dirty palm oil gets ditched by world’s largest pension fund Norway’s Government Pension Fund Glo…
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