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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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Some strategic approaches to land restoration
14.08.18-
Environmental health
An estimated 340 million hectares of woody vegetation are degraded across Africa’s fragile dry are…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Understanding gender norms and innovation processes to foster gender-equitable opportunities in forest landscapes
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Gender researchers present findings from Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan that shed light on how gender norm…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Bridging worlds through environmental activism
13.08.18-
Environmental health
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who will speak at the upcoming Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, has…
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Community benefits key to landscape restoration, CIFOR forest governance researcher says
12.08.18-
Environmental health
Almost a third of Africa’s land mass is degraded due to human activities – including…
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Ancient Amazon farming methods offer lessons for rainforest conservation, scientists say
11.08.18-
Environmental health
Ancient peoples sustainably farmed the Amazon more than four millennia ago, according to a new…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Committed to soil and water conservation
08.08.18-
Environmental health
Initiatives to restore degraded land on a large scale have gained huge momentum during recent…
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Sharing the risk of blue carbon investment in ‘era of SDGs’
06.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The public and private sectors must join forces to finance blue carbon, in order to…
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Agroforestry could make agriculture emissions-neutral by 2050
06.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
At a defining conference centred around the forthcoming ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Developmen…
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Getting landscape approaches off the ground, on the ground
05.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Significant advances have been made in how we think about landscape approaches, be that in…
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Aligning needs with solutions: Data-driven agricultural innovation for Vietnam’s farmers
03.08.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Vietnam's technology innovators and farmers convened at a workshop to gain a deeper appreciation of…
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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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Africa’s Great Green Wall: A work in progress
03.08.18-
Environmental health
Much has changed since 2007, when the African Union launched the Great Green Wall for…
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Restoring terrestrial ecosystems in Mexico: challenges and opportunities
02.08.18-
Environmental health
Landscape restoration initiatives are receiving renewed focus in Mexico with the release of a new…
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Philippines to access the Green Climate Fund
02.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Philippines is preparing a proposal to access the Green Climate Fund, a billion-dollar platform…
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Farmer led landscape restoration offers multiple benefits for smallholders and women in Burkina Faso
01.08.18-
Environmental health
In Burkina Faso, many smallholder farmers rely on tree-based landscapes to deliver vital provisions …
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TheConversation: How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet
01.08.18-
Environmental health
Over half of global freshwater becomes unusable wastewater. IWMI has analysed 24 possibilities for…
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