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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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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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Realizing the potential of Africa’s rangelands
11.09.18-
Environmental health
Rangelands cover some 43 percent of Africa’s land area – approximately 5.1 million square miles…
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“We started as a hungry nation” but trees on farms are now key
10.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Interview with Secretary Chhabilendra Roul of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the power…
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ICRISAT awarded Microsoft’s AI for Earth grant to promote environmental sustainability
10.09.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of its worldwide AI for Earth program, Microsoft has recently announced grants to…
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FTA at GLF Nairobi: Faith in trees restored
10.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The most recent Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference, focusing on restoration in Africa, was att…
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New app helps African farmers find the right tree
07.09.18-
Environmental health
A new web-based application now makes it possible for small-scale farmers to see the African…
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The forest is an ally not an enemy: can Peruvian farms support biodiversity?
07.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A new project in Peru is setting out to overcome barriers to growing more trees…
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Why the drone buzz is getting louder
07.09.18-
Environmental health
In 2012, peer-reviewed journal Tropical Conservation Science ran an article announcing the ‘dawn …
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Squaring the meat vs veganism circle
06.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Kiss, drawing by Pablo Picasso. Bull, Plate VIII, Pablo Picasso, 1946. . .…
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Indigenous lands crucial for conservation
06.09.18-
Environmental health
The world’s remaining ‘wild places’ are often envisaged to be packed full of biodiversity, and…
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Despite obstacles, GLF delegates see progress on AFR100 forest targets
06.09.18-
Environmental health
The rehabilitation of degraded forests and wooded, productive landscapes is a key component of a…
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Spilling the beans: FTA scientists contribute to new book about sustainable cocoa
06.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With a distinguished editor and a variety of international experts as authors, including a number…
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German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet
06.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentar…
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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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Acknowledge difference between tree and land tenure to enhance landscapes, urge GLF delegates
04.09.18-
Environmental health
Land tenure rights are widely recognized as being central to advancing sustainable development goals…
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Banking on nature
04.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Projects that harness nature-based structures in places like Kenya and Sri Lanka are showing, green…
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WeRise-RR orientations conducted for ICRR researchers
04.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Sukamandi, Indonesia, 15 August 2018 – The IRRI-Japan Collaborative Research Project (IJCRP) on Cl…
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Water for fish: Sustainable inland fisheries
04.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Inland fisheries are being overlooked in policy, management and development decisions, which is ulti…
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