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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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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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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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Mobile phone app launched to strengthen new insurance scheme for India’s farmers
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The scheme aims to provide more than half of Indian farmers with crop insurance within…
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What’s in it for gender researchers when it comes to UN Women’s gender and SDGs report?
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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IWMI scientist awarded for contributions to water policy in South Asia
20.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has named Tushaar Shah, a senior fellow with …
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‘High-yield’ farming costs the environment less than previously thought—and could help spare habitats
20.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
‘Breed More Dairy Cows’ poster from Vietnam. ‘New findings suggest that more intensive agricul…
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More than a thousand vegetables, many of them forgotten
19.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Bioversity International and partners reveal that most of the world's vegetable species are poorly …
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Regenerating crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
18.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…
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Water, ecosystems, human development – we can’t have one without the others
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Keynote address by UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina MohammedPhoto by Adam Hunt / WLE…
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IWA-network.org: Re-examining the economics, engineering and water management paradigms – An interview with Claudia Sadoff
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IWMI Director General, Claudia Sadoff, spoke to IWA about exciting initiatives that turn wealth fro…
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Agricultural research and education combine for tangible results in Latin America
17.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In light of its standing as a regional research platform and a higher education institution…
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Antarctic ozone depletion influences rainfall in tropics
14.09.18-
Environmental health
For residents of New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina or South Africa, the hole in the…
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Global endorsement of CGIAR work: IITA wins Africa Food Prize
14.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Africa Food Prize has been awarded to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IIT…
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CATIE marks 45 years of putting knowledge into practice
14.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) marks its 45th year, it is …
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Swapping pesticides for beetles could put money in farmers' pockets
11.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Combining insect sampling and household surveys, our research found significant economic benefits …
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Realizing the potential of Africa’s rangelands
11.09.18-
Environmental health
Rangelands cover some 43 percent of Africa’s land area – approximately 5.1 million square miles…
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“We started as a hungry nation” but trees on farms are now key
10.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Interview with Secretary Chhabilendra Roul of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the power…
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ICRISAT awarded Microsoft’s AI for Earth grant to promote environmental sustainability
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Big data
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of its worldwide AI for Earth program, Microsoft has recently announced grants to…
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FTA at GLF Nairobi: Faith in trees restored
10.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The most recent Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference, focusing on restoration in Africa, was att…
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