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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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In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?
23.05.19-
Biodiversity
Wednesday, 22 May, is the International Day for Biological Diversity, and following the damning IPBE…
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Possible pathways for development in Africa: What's missing?
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Biodiversity
This week the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Coming on the heels…
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Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
The fascinating diversity of maize in Mexico is rooted in its cultural and biological legacy…
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Recipes to the rescue
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to lev…
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Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biol…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
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Big data
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In his first blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, recognizes the…
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Behind the scenes of new BBC series “Dynasties”
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Biodiversity
Every living thing on this planet has a family, but some species will fight to…
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UN Drylands ambassador calls for greater focus on restoration of tropical drylands
17.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador, called for increased attention on restoring trop…
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David Ellis: Finding the balance between manager and scientist
17.05.19-
Biodiversity
Dave Ellis, who recently retired as leader of the International Potato Center genebank in Lima,…
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IPBES recognizes why agrobiodiversity matters
13.05.19-
Biodiversity
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report,…
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Extinction crisis on its way, according to new global report
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Biodiversity
A major new report is warning that human activity could lead to the extinction of…
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Ask the researchers: The Retail Diversity for Dietary Diversity project
03.05.19-
Biodiversity
A4NH researchers at Bioversity International and Wageningen University & Research, along with pa…
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Ask the researchers: Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Researchers with Bioversity International recently shared information on the Biodiversity for Food a…
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Reasons for low uptake of climate change technologies
25.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Factors such as lack of funding for scale-up are impeding uptake of climate change technologies.…
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CGIAR Science Council urges focus on urbanization in Agriculture & Food Systems 2050 Report
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Biodiversity
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Food security
The CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently launched 'Agriculture & F…
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EARTH DAY: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist?
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Palembang, Indonesia – Present day South Sumatra looks a lot different from its heyday as…
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Five ways food systems can make or break our Earth
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
From the year 2013 to 2016, Lao banana exports increased to $200 million, a tripling in…
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