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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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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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Injecting diversity to bolster immunity to climate change and food insecurity
16.04.18-
Biodiversity
Bioversity International’s Senior Scientist Stefano Padulosi and Principal Economist Adam Drucker …
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How to develop and manage your own community seedbank
11.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ronnie Vernooy, Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Bioversity International, reports on a new hand…
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Counting down: Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ loss of Borneo orangutans
10.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Once, there were hundreds of thousands of orangutans roaming the island of Borneo. Over the…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Forest fact or fiction
26.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Last Wednesday marked the seventh International Day of Forests, an occasion to celebrate our forests…
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Launch of the IPBES regional assessments
24.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…
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DOIs: A new era for germplasm labelling
18.03.18-
Biodiversity
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) have now been chosen to provide a globally unique and permanent…
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Have ESR-sponsored training courses stimulated uptake of ecosystem service science?
15.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Between 2014 and 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)…
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IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
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Peru and Bioversity International sign an agreement to advance research on cocoa
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Out of 40 project proposals, the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru selected the top 6,…
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On the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a call for conserving the rest of the world's food
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
This week Ann Tutwiler was privileged to join the celebration of the 10th anniversary of…
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Celebrating CGIAR “Global Gatekeepers” of Crop Diversity
27.02.18-
Biodiversity
“Genebanks are the backbone of CGIAR innovation. They ensure that thousands of scientists – acr…
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Jean Hanson: Building the next generation of genebank managers
22.02.18-
Biodiversity
Jean Hanson, the retiring leader of the Forage Diversity Project at the International Livestock Rese…
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The bean that could withstand hurricanes
13.02.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
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Orphan crops for improving diets
12.01.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Photo by K. Kehlenbeck/ICRAF Orphan crops, so-called because they are considered neglected and under…
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