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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
16.05.25-
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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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Stronger local food value chains can leave Eastern and Southern Africa more resilient post COVID-19
01.05.20-
Environmental health
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COVID-19 has seized the drylands of Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), home to some of…
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India groundnut farmers’ seed business debut yields big profits
24.04.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
A group of Indian farmers who made their entrepreneurial debut last year increased their income…
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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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Earth Day 2020: Lessons for human survival from a pandemic and a global environment under stress
21.04.20-
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BY WEI ZHANG, ELIZABETH BRYAN, CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The 50th anniversary of Ea…
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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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2020 the Year of #Water4Climate
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the…
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
16.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The future of food production is an urgent issue. Imagine that our ecosystems deteriorate to…
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No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming
10.03.20-
Environmental health
Terry Sunderland, a collaborating author of the Nature article “Asynchronous carbon sink saturatio…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Policy seminar: The European Union plans to tackle climate change, one value chain at a time
25.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The European Commission (EC) Green Deal is a critical initiative aimed at making the whole of Eur…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Growing trees on farms in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan faces significant obstacles but there are ways to overcome them: first study’s results
20.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya. 20 February 2020 – Small plot-sizes, as well as lack of information and external…
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Restoring Forests, Restoring Communities: Lessons from Shinyanga
18.02.20-
Environmental health
How secure resource rights help communities in Africa restore forests and build local economies “L…
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Indo-Australia genomics project for chickpea drought tolerance gains momentum
07.02.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
India and Australia have joined hands in a multi-institutional project to enhance drought tolerance …
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Humboldt’s 'Naturgemälde' can pave the way for lasting agro-ecological transitions
29.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Chimborazo—the indestructible, snow-capped “throne of nature,” as Simón Bolívar called the i…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
10.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
03.01.20-
Environmental health
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A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
11.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
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