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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-
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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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Piloting climate-smart agriculture for climate-change adaptation in Viet Nam
12.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new project financed by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safet…
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Study suggests that climate smart agriculture can boost yields, reduce hunger and emissions globally
11.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY ALEX DE PINTO AND NICOLA CENACCHI Climate change is a threat to agriculture production around…
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Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 the recipe for a cascading disaster
10.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
In the immediate aftermath of Amphan, access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is…
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How can food loss and waste reduction best deliver climate benefits?
10.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Our food systems are failing us, and a new report from the Transforming Food Systems…
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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online
09.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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WorldFish celebrates World Oceans Day
08.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
08.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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De-risking livelihoods in climate and conflict hotspots: The need to align humanitarian and development objectives and finance
08.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Climate and conflict are major threats to livelihoods and food security in the Global South.…
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Conservation agriculture feeds people and protects the environment
04.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On June 5, 2020, the world celebrates World Environment Day as COVID-19 continues to cause…
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Groundwater depletion in Punjab: Time for a major policy overhaul
04.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The time for quick fixes is over; a comprehensive policy overhaul is urgently needed to…
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Balanced agro-ecosystems strengthen food security
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Preserving biodiversity, and the potential it stores, soils, landscapes, and diets, is one of the m…
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Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental degradation and climate change are major concerns for all countries in the world. The…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Enabling markets and public sector actions to incentivize sustainable practices
28.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Many technologies and practices can help farmers improve their incomes and help the environment, but…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Supporting prosperity through mobility and rural reinvigoration
26.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A number of years ago, while interviewing farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe, one of us (Bruce)…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
19.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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COVID-19: Flattening the food insecurity curve
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must…
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