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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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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
15.04.19-
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This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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A Homecoming for Rice
12.04.19-
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AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
11.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to e…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
09.04.19-
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Environmental health
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
08.04.19-
Biodiversity
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
02.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
01.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Mushrooms for prosperity in Chin State
28.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A mushroom research and training programme in Myanmar is aiming to lift farmers out of…
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Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on…
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Rice-fish farming could help boost farmers’ income in Myanmar’s “rice bowl”
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
MAUBIN Township, Myanmar—Aquaculture production in rice-based cropping systems could potentially b…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar work together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa
24.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Among East Africa’s biodiversity hotspots is the Desa’a forest, which borders Tigray and Afar in…
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Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water
22.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers, governments and development agencies are hastening to harness the potential of floodwat…
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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme
20.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. Th…
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