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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-
Big data
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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Swapping pesticides for beetles could put money in farmers' pockets
11.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Combining insect sampling and household surveys, our research found significant economic benefits …
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Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?
06.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Every year, the Peruvian Amazon loses more than 100,000 hectares of forest due to…
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Beyond selfies: African youth vow to restore the continent’s landscapes
05.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
On 27-28 August, over 60 youth from a dozen African countries gathered at the World…
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Indonesia looking to protect biodiversity through trees on farms
03.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Representatives from government and non-governmental organizations are working together to ensure th…
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Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia
28.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…
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Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
15.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The state of the earth’s biodiversity – the world’s variety of living organisms – is…
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A global strategy for the conservation and use of coconut genetic resources
10.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An updated global strategy launched by the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network/Bioversit…
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From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru
09.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers say farmers need more help if they are to sell healthy farm products directly…
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Bamboo and rattan: Surprising tools for forest protection
03.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A new declaration is paving the way for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in forest conservation. …
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Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air,…
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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…
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Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge
18.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a…
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Threat of cassava mosaic disease, strengthening resilience to climate disasters, dominate conversations between CIAT and Vietnam agricultural institutions
13.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the International Center for Tr…
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Forests and water are inseparable
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The world is facing a growing water crisis: already, 40% of the world’s population are…
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Securing East Africa’s cassava
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
02.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island
26.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Restoring degraded land is a major global challenge made more urgent by a changing climate,…
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Daniel Debouck: The man who knows his beans
21.06.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck, former CGIAR CIAT genebank manager, has dedicated 40 years of his professional life…
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