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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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No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming
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Environmental health
Terry Sunderland, a collaborating author of the Nature article “Asynchronous carbon sink saturatio…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of…
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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Ethiopia - This week Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prim…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Q & A with Lalisa Duguma Forests News caught up with climate change mitigation and…
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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Can you trust the numbers?
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestati…
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Borderline
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Food security
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Gender equality
Ghana - Part VII of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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Pineapples and peatlands
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But…
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DRC landscape restoration is electrifying!
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic…
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Ghetto chimps, 4 billion trees for Ethiopia, while Amazon deforestation accelerates…fast!
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
In Forests News last week: Can forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa? Agriculture…
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And in the end, where are we starting to go?
09.06.19Bill McKibben will give a video address at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019 on 22–23 June.…
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When ancestral lands fall victim to an international border
07.06.19Burkina Faso - Part VI of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST…
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Indigenous peoples’ work in world’s protected areas is ignored and untapped
06.06.19This topic will be explored at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019 on 22–23 June. Register to…
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Fellows shape new pathways around Indigenous traditional knowledge at U.N.
06.06.19Woven textiles are an age-old tradition passed down through the generations by women in the…
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Ghanaian star Joselyn Dumas tackles taboos and children’s rights
05.06.19Joselyn Dumas will speak at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019 on 22–23 June. Register to att…
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Re-attaching young people to the climate crisis
05.06.19Neeshad Shafi will speak at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019 on 22–23 June. Register to att…
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“Restoration belongs to the community”
04.06.19Timescales can be tricky in forest restoration. We might have the best arguments in the…
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The return of Chagos, DiCaprio’s new film, and the birth of Arctic peatlands
03.06.19Welcome to the Landscape News bi-weekly digest on landscapes, climate and sustainability. From what…
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