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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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Is waste the next big business opportunity?
17.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness waste to help fill the world’s…
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
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Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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ArkansasOnline.com: UN biodiversity report paints bleak picture
26.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
WASHINGTON — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a significant rate, according…
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Dam right: Improving opportunities for reservoir fisheries
26.03.18-
Environmental health
Sustainable Development Goal 6 commits the world to ensuring that everyone has access to safe…
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InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…
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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
23.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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Phys.org: Agriculture must make water use go further
22.03.18In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
22.03.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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At the World Water Forum 2018
21.03.18-
Environmental health
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
21.03.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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AL-Monitor.com: Why drought is a national security issue in Iran
20.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Mismanagement of water resources combined with climate change threaten the futures of coming generat…
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UN Chronicle: Coming to grips with water security in the face of climate change
13.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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How people in high-risk areas of Africa and Asia can come to grips with water…
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
13.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural fields…
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International Women’s Day
08.03.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and infl…
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