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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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Tension and transformation in the patriarchy
20.02.19-
Environmental health
Kenya - When Jackline Cheplang’at began teaching fellow community members about gender and conserv…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that…
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Talk shows and text messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
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Environmental health
This story is the second in a three-part series. Read part one, Barking up the…
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Tree love this Valentine’s Day
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Environmental health
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Resear…
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Valentine’s Day Special: Can chocolate survive climate change?
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Environmental health
Chocolate is at the top of shopping lists for Valentine’s Day, most of us gifting…
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Fresh funds to help clean up ocean plastics in Asia
12.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
It might not sound quite like a fairytale romance, but the match between millions of…
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Insect extinction, Japanese tree revelations, and world’s smelliest fruit
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe: Insects could vanish within…
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On being a woman, in the field and in her field
10.02.19-
Environmental health
It was the sense of adventure that wooed Greta Dargie into scientific research, the photos…
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Is our global food system broken?
08.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
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Nigeria’s agribusiness Agrolay Ventures goes against the grain
05.02.19-
Environmental health
Importing food that could be produced locally costs the continent of Africa around USD 40…
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Leopards on the loose, a planet inferno, and will fast food giants spark a Domino’s effect for climate change?
05.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: McDonald’s, KFC and Domino’s: Investors dang…
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Farmer-led landscape restoration movement re-greens the Sahel
04.02.19-
Environmental health
A reforestation strategy conceived by agronomist Tony Rinaudo has so far led to the restoration…
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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
01.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
30.01.19-
Environmental health
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pilla…
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HEADLINES: The world’s rich talk climate change at Davos whilst the poor bear its brunt in Mali
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe: In Forests News last…
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Religious leaders in Colombia and Peru urge protection of rainforests
23.01.19-
Environmental health
An appeal made by Pope Francis almost four years ago to prevent the destruction of…
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Communities still not at the core of restoration, experts say
22.01.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s a familiar refrain in environmental circles: to be effective and sustainable, landscape resto…
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Headlines: Trump on fire, palm oil price slump and the extinction of coffee
22.01.19Forests News has trawled through the world's press to give you our best pick of…
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