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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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Insect extinction, Japanese tree revelations, and world’s smelliest fruit
11.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe: Insects could vanish within…
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Trees on farms in Honduras: a chance for biodiversity
11.02.19-
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Among the cattle ranches, mountainous natural forests and smallholdings of Catacamas, Hondur…
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New paradigm unfolds to rapidly regreen Africa
04.02.19-
Biodiversity
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The Regreening Africa project is charting new paths into complex, unmapped territory in its effort…
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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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2.5 million hectares pledged to be restored in the Caucasus and Central Asia
31.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have pledged to put the mil…
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Collaborating to innovate for India’s agriculture research: ICAR – ICRISAT finalize 5-year action plan
31.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Improved crops, nutrition-sensitive agriculture on the cards A five-year plan for Indian agricultu…
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HEADLINES: The world’s rich talk climate change at Davos whilst the poor bear its brunt in Mali
28.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe: In Forests News last…
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Agricultural innovation in the mountains: a new direction
28.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform in Yunnan, China is a new way to better understand…
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Three new farmer-preferred sorghum varieties released in Malawi
18.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Three new improved sorghum varieties have been released in Malawi after extensive trials. Pilira 3,…
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Funding genebank routines … forever
17.01.19-
Biodiversity
In 2018, the Crop Trust entered into a long-term partnership agreement (LPA) with the International…
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ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development set to revolutionize land use in Southeast Asia
16.01.19-
Biodiversity
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The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry held their 40th meeting on 11 October 2018 in…
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The Great Food Transformation
15.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Launched today, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems sets out pr…
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A global community seedbank platform
07.01.19-
Biodiversity
Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Ronnie Vernooy, discusses how Bioversity International and part…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
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Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste
22.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agr…
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Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool
20.12.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will…
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In Andhra Pradesh, ICRAF starts deep dive into science of Zero-Budget Natural Farming
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra…
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