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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-
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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Driving sustainable innovations: How policy can transform communities and ecosystems
11.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Policy is essential to fostering innovations that address pressing global challenges, from food inse…
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Agroecological transitions through science, practice, and social movements in India, Peru, and Senegal
11.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Alejandra Arce (CIP), Raphael Belmin (CIRAD), Sarah Freed (Alliance Bioversity Internationa…
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Guinea grass reference genome to open new territories in forage breeding
11.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Rosa Jauregui, Tropical Forage Plant Breeder, Urochloa spp. and Megathyrsus maximus, the Alliance…
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Digital twin for water management handed over for trial in the Limpopo River Basin
10.12.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) …
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Balancing food security with environmental sustainability: CGIAR approach to nutrient management, food security, and environmental sustainability
09.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
In a rapidly changing world, where agricultural productivity must balance food security with environ…
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Food + Education: a necessary and powerful combination in this challenging time of transformation
09.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Food EDU is designed to facilitate the translation and application of cutting-edge research in food,…
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Regreening Africa: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development
08.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The European Commission's Regreening Africa initiative took center stage at a side event at the…
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GEF invests UD$5.2 billion in sustainable land management
08.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
As UNCCD's financial mechanism, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) has invested $5.2 billion in…
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Commonwealth Secretariat’s call to action for sustainable land management
08.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The Commonwealth Secretariat's side event at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to…
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Scaling land and soil regeneration through a behavioural science approach
08.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
In scaling up land and soil regeneration efforts, behavioral science plays a critical role. Understa…
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Sustainable land use systems: Advancing land degradation neutrality through local action and global integration
08.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Feed, care, and protect are the three pillars for anchoring sustainable land management to achieve…
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Sustainable Agricultural Development: Roots of Peacebuilding
06.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
“In environmental peacebuilding there’s an approach called the ‘contact hypothesis’, which s…
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How much carbon can Kenyan grasslands store in their soils? Insights from the CarboGrass Project
06.12.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
In Kenya, a team of researchers is working to assess the impact of grassland management…
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Shaping a Sustainable Future: Implementing CGIAR’s 2030 Global Strategy for Resilient Drylands
05.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
On 4 December 2024, the CGIAR, ICARDA and ICRISAT launched the CGIAR 2030 Global Strategy…
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Participatory rangeland management: A business case for Africa
05.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Participatory rangeland management (PRM) is a transformative, community-led approach to better manag…
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Business and finance models for increased sustainability and equity of solar-powered irrigation in Pakistan: Insights from the private sector
05.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Zain M. Akbar, Claudia Ringler, and Mohsin Hafeez In Pakistan, unlike India, the solar-powered…
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Leave no crops behind: the case for cryopreservation
05.12.24-
Biodiversity
This year’s World Food Prize was awarded to two pioneers of crop diversity conservation: Geoff…
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How Can We Tackle the Food and Climate Crises Together? Insights from COP29
05.12.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
At the Food & Agriculture Pavilion during COP29, experts gathered to explore how transforming fo…
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