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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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IWMI scientist awarded for contributions to water policy in South Asia
20.09.18-
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The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has named Tushaar Shah, a senior fellow with …
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Water, ecosystems, human development – we can’t have one without the others
18.09.18-
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Keynote address by UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina MohammedPhoto by Adam Hunt / WLE…
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IWA-network.org: Re-examining the economics, engineering and water management paradigms – An interview with Claudia Sadoff
18.09.18-
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IWMI Director General, Claudia Sadoff, spoke to IWA about exciting initiatives that turn wealth fro…
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ICRISAT awarded Microsoft’s AI for Earth grant to promote environmental sustainability
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As part of its worldwide AI for Earth program, Microsoft has recently announced grants to…
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DailyMirror.lk: Coordinated effort urged for Sri Lanka’s future water security
04.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
IWMI researchers expressed their views on Sri Lanka’s water security at the latest ‘Colombo Deve…
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Banking on nature
04.09.18-
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Projects that harness nature-based structures in places like Kenya and Sri Lanka are showing, green…
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ElPais.com: What to do in the absence of water
30.08.18-
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No development is possible without it. And more than 5,000 million people could suffer scarcity…
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Getting ahead of disaster risks
28.08.18-
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Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…
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World Water Week 2018
27.08.18-
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Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …
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How to pay for watershed rehabilitation
23.08.18-
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Smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands pay a high price for reduced land productivity caused by…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
10.08.18-
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Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Committed to soil and water conservation
08.08.18-
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Initiatives to restore degraded land on a large scale have gained huge momentum during recent…
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TheConversation: How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet
01.08.18-
Environmental health
Over half of global freshwater becomes unusable wastewater. IWMI has analysed 24 possibilities for…
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IPSNews.net: Sustainable Agriculture To End World Hunger
26.07.18-
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With a growing world population, hunger and undernutrition are on the rise, and governments are…
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IFPRI.org: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
26.07.18-
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"In a finite world we need a much more circular-engineering approach." says IWMI Director General…
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Policy seminar: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
25.07.18-
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BY GRACE COLLORD Promoting water security requires both increasing productivity to contend with scar…
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Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (United Nations): Webcast of remarks by IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff
13.07.18-
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Claudia Sadoff addresses the particularly complex targets concerning water scarcity as well as susta…
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CNN.com: Can the Middle East solve its water problem?
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"When you draw down more water than is replenished, then you begin to degrade the…
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