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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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Researchers Show Consequences Of Inaction on Devastating Banana Disease
12.10.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) statistics, Africa south …
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The potential of Integrated Rice Fish Farming System to boost agroecological transitions in India’s West Godavari
12.10.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors of this blog: Ayan Samaddar, Research Associate, World Fish-India & Sarah Freed, Scie…
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How does promoting modern seed varieties impact forest conservation?
05.10.23-
Environmental health
BY TANGUY BERNARD, SYLVIE LAMBERT, KAREN MACOURS, AND MARGAUX VINEZ OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Modern…
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FAO and IWMI’s milestone book gives actionable guidelines on water quality for agriculture
05.10.23-
Environmental health
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) …
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Animal Day: Five Freedoms to care the Fauna
04.10.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
For about 200,000 years, since humans became the dominant species, we have made many transformations…
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A guide to better tomorrow’s brew through regenerative coffee farming
02.10.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Climate change means we must change how we grow coffee For centuries, coffee has grown…
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Regional Food Safety Experts Call for Collaborative Approaches to Transforming Food Safety in African Wet Markets
28.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Food security
Food safety experts from African countries from August 29 - September 2 gathered at the…
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Increasing Kenya’s food, land and water policy coherence through coordination and collaboration
26.09.23-
Environmental health
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
On 15 August 2023, the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) hosted the…
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Agroecology can achieve breakthroughs in the agricultural sector worldwide
24.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The new CGIAR report “Achieving Agricultural Breakthrough: A deep dive into seven technological ar…
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Working in partnership with PELUM Kenya to achieve agroecological transitions
18.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Rosinah Mbenya, Country Coordinator, PELUM Kenya, and Lisa Fuchs, country focal point of th…
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Conservation agriculture helps smallholder farmers to be more resource efficient
15.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Millions of rural Indians, mostly farmers, are at the mercy of changing weather and climate…
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Investigations in storage at World Water Week
15.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The Shashe catchment of the Limpopo Basin in Botswana and Zimbabwe is a dry place:…
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“For everything to function, people need water”
15.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Meet NEXUS Gains’ partners in the Shashe sub-basin The Shashe River originates in Botswana and…
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WorldFish positions Aquatic Foods at high-level regional agenda
15.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Transforming Aquatic Food Systems (AFS) in Africa to develop and harness their potential requires jo…
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Africa Climate Summit advanced tree restoration pledges but a big seed shortage remains
14.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Restoring degraded landscapes with the help of trees is a major, worldwide goal. But new…
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Concentric by Ginkgo and CGIAR International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) announce collaboration on pathogen surveillance
07.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
BOSTON and NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), whic…
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TRANSITIONS: Inclusive digital tools to scale smallholder agroecology
05.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Food security
Agroecological food systems, guided by nature, can provide ecosystem services and promote equitable,…
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What is the real cost of food? NATURE+, IFPRI aim to add up a reality-based food bill
04.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Food prices may be soaring but we’re still not paying the true cost of food.…
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