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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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Where REDD+ money goes – and doesn’t go
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
REDD+ financing’s annual average of USD 323 million might sound like a lot on its…
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Uncertainty over land rights perceived as top investment risk in new USAID survey
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Environmental health
Insights into the way the private sector deal with risks to their investments stemming from…
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To survive in climate change, look past targets and focus on the long game
31.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Under the theme “Building the Investment Case for Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration,” the 2…
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A brief explainer of how REDD+ finance works
30.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In one of largest ongoing efforts to tackle climate change, projects happening the world under…
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Progress on the process of managing landscapes
28.05.18-
Environmental health
It’s 2018, and the pressure to manage the world’s resources responsibly for people, biodiversity…
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Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
27.05.18-
Environmental health
Thanks to pressure and advocacy from civil society, governments, shareholders and consumers in the G…
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Outcomes for forests at the Bonn Climate Change Conference
22.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
It has been nearly three years since countries entered into the Paris Agreement. During that…
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Using the ‘four powers’ to tackle land use dilemmas
21.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Exclusion from land is inherently negative. A handful of actors hold all the power to…
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In ecotourism, trotting the globe to help protect it
17.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On the edge of Sumatra’s Leuser National Park, Tanganan village offers days spent hiking to…
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Ebola returns in area scientists predicted ‘highly favorable’ for outbreak
16.05.18-
Health
Ebola, the deadly hemorrhagic virus that can kill up to 90 percent of those it…
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Oil palm for the people
15.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent…
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GLF summit: Leveraging investment portfolios to manage sustainable landscapes
15.05.18-
Environmental health
More than 900,000 people living off the electrical grid now have improved access to renewable…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
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Environmental health
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari villag…
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Firm to pitch $150 million Treenewable Climate Fund in GLF Dragons’ Den
10.05.18-
Environmental health
An investment company managing almost $5 billion in land assets will make a $150 million…
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Coastal forest conservation in Kenya adds up
09.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Enlist the help of hundreds of community volunteers, hire one project coordinator and two security…
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Indo-Gangetic Plain rice-wheat landscapes get climate smart makeover
09.05.18-
Environmental health
Farmers confront a daunting range of options for potentially achieving high crop yields on India’s…
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In Indonesia, social forestry gets socialized
08.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
One challenge with social forestry is that its inner-workings aren’t always understood – often a…
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Justice glitches and technical fixes in conservation projects
07.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the last decade, ambitious global initiatives have been launched to address climate change and…
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