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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
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15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick receives Elinor Ostrom Award
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The 2019 Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons acknowledges Ruth Meinzen-Dickâ…
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Policy Seminar: Faster than you think – renewable energy and developing countries
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Ten years ago, predictions for the adoption of renewable energy around the world made it…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
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Q & A with Lalisa Duguma Forests News caught up with climate change mitigation and…
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
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Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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Can you trust the numbers?
17.06.19-
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Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestati…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
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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
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Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Act now to feed 10 billion, global experts tell WLE Commission at EAT Forum
13.06.19-
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Can the world produce 10 billion healthy diets while transitioning agriculture from a source of…
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DRC landscape restoration is electrifying!
12.06.19-
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Democratic Republic of the Congo - For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic…
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Business models from the edge: Finding the green in sunshine, soil and sludge
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This week marks World Environment Day, and we search for solutions on how to better…
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World Environment Day: The need for strong institutions and policies to restore and protect planetary health
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Originally published on the International Food Policy Research Institute blog. As people and …
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A burning issue: How sustainable agriculture is helping mitigate air pollution in South Asia
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Pollution has become a part of our daily life: particulate matter in the air we…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
25.05.19-
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Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
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Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions in India
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For Immediate Release New book: Successful agroforestry models for different agro-ecological regions…
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In Petén, Guatemala, community forestry is viable business
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In the space where forest conservation meets poverty reduction, win-win situations can be rare, espe…
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