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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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Taking stock of carbon in mangroves
06.05.18-
Environmental health
As scientists are increasingly exploring the high carbon stocks contained in mangroves, tidal marshe…
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Responsible investment to combat land degradation emerges from Dragons’ Den
06.05.18-
Environmental health
Restoring degraded land could inject $84 billion a year to the global economy, according to…
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INTERVIEW: Prioritize smallholder cultivation of oil palm in Indonesia, urges researcher Tania Li
03.05.18-
Environmental health
Where large-scale agricultural production occurs, conflicts may arise over land rights, the distribu…
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Somaliland president launches new annual reforestation day
03.05.18-
Environmental health
A new "Somaliland National Tree Day" reforestation initiative will be held each year to address one…
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For REDD+ payment, countries need framework, then investment
01.05.18-
Environmental health
“When you talk about protection of forests, you have to remember that it not only…
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Initiative 20×20 members urge greater access to climate funds, private finance for land restoration
01.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
National forest restoration and conservation projects need more financing to aid transformation to a…
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How a Kenyan cement company turned a barren landscape into an eden
01.05.18-
Environmental health
It is hard to imagine that the lush forest of Haller Park, an ecological wonder…
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Participatory monitoring key to restoration success
30.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
150 million hectares of degraded land – an area the size of Alaska. That’s what…
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5 questions on forests in climate change
29.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Halfway between COP23 and COP24, the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference is being held in…
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Technology picks up and transmits “call of the wild” to stop illegal deforestation
28.04.18-
Environmental health
In the heart of a remote area in northern Brazil, the Amazon rainforest hums with the…
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Global experts to convene in Washington for discussions on future of sustainable finance
26.04.18-
Environmental health
More than 250 financial experts, policymakers and environmentalists will meet in Washington on May 3…
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What happened at the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
25.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region on earth, home to the world’s three largest cities.…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
23.04.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long…
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A Ponzi scheme with Nature?
23.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A few months back, we shared our first impressions of new research on the Zambian…
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Global emissions targets in focus at rainforest summit in Indonesia
19.04.18-
Environmental health
Discussions at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) in Indonesia next week will kick off with…
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Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
19.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than…
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In REDD+ villages, women say their wellbeing has declined
17.04.18-
Gender equality
Climate change interventions in forest communities are still not getting it right when it comes…
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Why social forestry: Securing the sap
17.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a forest in southwestern Sumatra, Dedy Aprianto starts clearing the undergrowth below a damar…
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