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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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Mine compensation process in Africa should protect women’s rights, WoMin group urges
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Gender equality
Women in Africa are paying a disproportionate price for mineral and fuel extraction, according to…
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Comprehensive REDD+ tool ID-RECCO is updated and now hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research
08.08.18BOGOR, Indonesia (7 August 2018) – The innovative REDD+ monitoring tool, International Database on…
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Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - “We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate…
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Getting landscape approaches off the ground, on the ground
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Significant advances have been made in how we think about landscape approaches, be that in…
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Africa’s Great Green Wall: A work in progress
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Environmental health
Much has changed since 2007, when the African Union launched the Great Green Wall for…
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Restoring terrestrial ecosystems in Mexico: challenges and opportunities
02.08.18-
Environmental health
Landscape restoration initiatives are receiving renewed focus in Mexico with the release of a new…
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Farmer led landscape restoration offers multiple benefits for smallholders and women in Burkina Faso
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Environmental health
In Burkina Faso, many smallholder farmers rely on tree-based landscapes to deliver vital provisions …
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Q+A: No silver bullet for solving landscape restoration challenges in Africa, CIFOR director general says
31.07.18-
Environmental health
Landscapes in Africa must be restored to ensure the natural resource needs of the continent’s…
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Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
31.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cameroon - Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents…
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Q+A: Africa at critical climate action crossroads, UN Environment chief says
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Environmental health
The movement to restore degraded land and meet targets under the Paris agreement on climate…
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Before a landscape approach, an integrative initiative to try
25.07.18At the landscape level, tackling one problem invariably involves trade-offs with another. For instan…
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A look at unseen meadows
25.07.18Indonesia - Blame it on the fact that we’re visual creatures, but while mangroves, salt…
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Turning finance blue
24.07.18Indonesia - The U.S. was uncooperative at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, and…
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Financial benefits for smallholders help realize Kenya Upper Tana landscape initiative
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Environmental health
Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has prioritized the protection of its land alongside the…
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Governing blue carbon – and all that it entails
19.07.18-
Environmental health
Indonesia - The banks of the Ciliwung River are not grounds for Jakarta’s most desired…
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Intersectionality is important for forests too
15.07.18Aristocrats are like the enduring ironwoods, and commoners are like the strangling fig that kills.…
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Reduce bureaucracy for community, indigenous groups embroiled in land rights challenges, report urges
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Environmental health
Formal land tenure claims -- often stalled by costly legal disputes lasting up to 30…
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Repositioning forests in rural economic development
11.07.18Indonesia - Every time we pick out a new end table or order a burger,…
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