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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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Agrobiodiversity essential to sustainable food systems for the future
25.06.19-
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Food security
A new book from MIT Press proposes and develops an expanded concept of agrobiodiversity, which,…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
22.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
20.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
Biodiversity
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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To save biodiversity and feed the future, first cure “plant blindness”
13.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
From the urban jungle – even the leafier parts of suburbia – we often have…
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Where — and why — is agroforestry hiding?
12.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agroforestry, a land-management system that couples the growth of trees and shrubs with crops and…
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Africa’s Animal Genetic Resources – The Wealth Within
12.06.19-
Biodiversity
Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African minister…
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New Index outlines agrobiodiversity’s role in food system sustainability
11.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool to calculate how well countries are conserving a…
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Seed Sorting: From Harvest to Genebank
11.06.19-
Biodiversity
An automatic seed sorter is now making the task of sorting seeds more efficient at…
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Ghetto chimps, 4 billion trees for Ethiopia, while Amazon deforestation accelerates…fast!
10.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
In Forests News last week: Can forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa? Agriculture…
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
07.06.19-
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
05.06.19-
Biodiversity
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A new book, Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India, was lau…
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Biodiversity’s freshwater connection
03.06.19-
Biodiversity
A key role for sustainable water management in curbing species extinction.…
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Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves
26.05.19-
Biodiversity
It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…
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Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women
24.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…
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