News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
Q+A: No silver bullet for solving landscape restoration challenges in Africa, CIFOR director general says
31.07.18-
Environmental health
Landscapes in Africa must be restored to ensure the natural resource needs of the continent’s…
Read more -
-
IFPRI.org: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
26.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
"In a finite world we need a much more circular-engineering approach." says IWMI Director General…
Read more -
-
Q+A: Africa at critical climate action crossroads, UN Environment chief says
26.07.18-
Environmental health
The movement to restore degraded land and meet targets under the Paris agreement on climate…
Read more -
-
Policy seminar: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security
25.07.18-
Environmental health
-
Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD Promoting water security requires both increasing productivity to contend with scar…
Read more -
-
Failure to manage blue carbon ecosystems could break the internet
24.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Failing to properly manage “blue carbon” ecosystems could result in biodiversity losses, pronoun…
Read more -
-
Financial benefits for smallholders help realize Kenya Upper Tana landscape initiative
23.07.18-
Environmental health
Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has prioritized the protection of its land alongside the…
Read more -
-
Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health
Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air,…
Read more -
-
Governing blue carbon – and all that it entails
19.07.18-
Environmental health
Indonesia - The banks of the Ciliwung River are not grounds for Jakarta’s most desired…
Read more -
-
Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge
18.07.18-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health
According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a…
Read more -
-
Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa
17.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…
Read more -
-
Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (United Nations): Webcast of remarks by IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff
13.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Claudia Sadoff addresses the particularly complex targets concerning water scarcity as well as susta…
Read more -
-
Coming soon: ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
The guidelines are expected to successfully overcome institutional hurdles and will eventually lead …
Read more -
-
CNN.com: Can the Middle East solve its water problem?
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
"When you draw down more water than is replenished, then you begin to degrade the…
Read more -
-
Philippine partners learn about mechanized straw collection
12.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Rice straw is a major residue in Philippine rice farms. Due to lack of awareness…
Read more -
-
Reduce bureaucracy for community, indigenous groups embroiled in land rights challenges, report urges
12.07.18-
Environmental health
Formal land tenure claims -- often stalled by costly legal disputes lasting up to 30…
Read more -
-
Bhoochetana: An exceptional story of innovation scale-up bringing prosperity to over 4 million farmers
10.07.18-
Environmental health
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In May 2009, farmers in the state of Karnataka were facing declining crop yields and…
Read more -
-
Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
06.07.18-
Environmental health
-
Food security
“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
Read more -
-
Damned if you don’t!
05.07.18-
Environmental health
-
Health
Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.…
Read more -