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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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Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects
27.07.20-
Environmental health
The Agrobiodiversity Index and the Enhancing Sustainability Across Agricultural Systems of the Water…
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West Africa: Smarter investments in small reservoirs needed
27.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Small reservoirs allow West African farmers to irrigate their fields and water their livestock. They…
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Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali
24.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A study by scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Mopti, Segou and Sikasso, located in cent…
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Expert-assisted Decision Analysis supports agroforestry in Viet Nam
20.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Selecting appropriate practices for specific locations that are aligned with the needs, values and p…
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A library for understanding the soils of the world
19.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
New soil spectral library addresses global food supply through advanced soil analysis. A breakthroug…
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How tech and modern market mechanisms can solve water scarcity in post-Soviet states
18.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Uzbekistan is an incredibly dry country, receiving an annual rainfall of just 100 to 300…
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Only fair oceans can strengthen people and planet, argue researchers in new report
17.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A reset on ocean governance is needed to support a healthy and thriving relationship between…
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Coconut bashing?
15.07.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the worlds’ coconut beaches are all very quiet from the pause in global tourism…
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Success Through Seaweed in Bangladesh
10.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
This is ECOFISH II interventions as per approved alternate income-generating activities AIGAs throug…
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Facing COVID-19 in the highlands of Madagascar: How are the rural households and women coping?
03.07.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Contributed by Gaudiose Mujawamariya, Rice Value Chain Expert and Gender Focal Point, and Irina Andr…
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Sacred forests and environmental protection among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Gedeo’s sacred forests are conserved for ritual purposes,’ said Yoseph Maru, first author of…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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Economic incentives to resolve conflicts in transboundary flows within watersheds: the case of the Cordilleras in the Philippines
26.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When it comes to property rights, many Philippine forests are open access. This means that…
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Modeling the impacts of new policies on water quality in Burkina Faso
24.06.20-
Environmental health
When scientists turn to modeling, it is to investigate possible scenarios that cannot, for one…
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Local people hold the key to solving Burkina Faso’s water challenges
18.06.20-
Environmental health
Thanks to its usually abundant rice production, the Kou River Valley has for decades been…
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Special Feature: Eyes In The Sky, Farmers Rest Insured
15.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Odisha, India: Paddy farmers in Odisha look to the skies with the hope that rain…
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Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China
15.06.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The group shuffled into the exhibition room, eyes flitting across parasitic fungi growing out of…
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Implementing nutrition-sensitive pond polyculture in Zambia: WorldFish teams up with Peace Corps volunteers
13.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
We sat down with Taryn Cadena and Katharine (Katie) Thomas, two young women who were…
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