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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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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
18.03.19-
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Environmental health
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid…
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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
15.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing t…
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Unlocking the secrets of tropical trees
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Tropical forests are magical places. Inside the bustling canopy,…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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The Molecular Maize Atlas encourages genetic diversity
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of…
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Land Degradation Surveillance Framework deployed in Senegal
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Framework is helping farmers and governments monitor the progress of regreening efforts and the…
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Statement of condolence on the loss of Kodjo Glato, a fine young agricultural scientist from Togo
12.03.19-
Biodiversity
Kodjo Glato was one of 157 passengers and crew who tragically perished in the crash…
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Orangutan extinction, a rhino resurrection, and using fire to fight fire
12.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: Want to stop climate change? Then…
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Vania Azevedo: A Fighter for Plant Genetic Resources
08.03.19-
Biodiversity
ICRISAT’s Head of Genebank discusses her past work and shares her thoughts on the role…
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Tracing high-iron beans to the genebank
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A Genebank Platform Impact Fellow looks at the journey of beans from the genebank to…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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María Elker Montoya, champion creator of the method helping to fight off the Rice Hoja Blanca Virus
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Biodiversity
María, who started her career as a Research Assistant at the Latin American Fund for…
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On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
We interviewed our gender leaders Marlène Elias (M.E.) of Bioversity and Jennifer Twyman (J.T.) of…
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Arrivederci – Ann Tutwiler's Farewell Blog
27.02.19-
Biodiversity
As Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International prepares to step down, she reflects on t…
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Biodiversity loss threatens future of food
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The precious biodiversity that sustain our food systems is in decline, according to first-ever glo…
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“Act now to halt and reverse the unsustainable use of nature” – videos bring to life groundbreaking biodiversity report
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
To protect the future of food, water and quality of life, the world needs to…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that…
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Trees nurture nutrition
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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