News

30.08.18

Environmental health
Food security

No development is possible without it. And more than 5,000 million people could suffer scarcity…

GLF Nairobi shines spotlight on communities in Africa restoring degraded landscapes

Environmental health

Africa loses 2.8 million hectares of forest each year, an area roughly the size of…

Stronger political commitments, rural governance key to landscape restoration: One World – No Hunger envoy

Environmental health

We have the necessary technical knowledge to restore landscapes, said deputy director-general and co…

CIFOR director general urges paradigm shift to meet landscape restoration goals

Environmental health

If landscape degradation brings huge costs to society and restoration brings impressive returns, why…

Tony Simons, director general, World Agroforestry Centre

We need a revolution in land management, says ICRAF’s Tony Simons

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Environmental health

Tony Simons is director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), which is based in Nairob…

Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia

28.08.18

Biodiversity
Environmental health

Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…

Getting ahead of disaster risks

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

28.08.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…

New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores

27.08.18

Environmental health
Health

Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…

World Water Week 2018

27.08.18

Environmental health
Food security

Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …

Third AFR100 Annual Partnership meeting delegates

Tanzania and Togo pledge land restoration targets under AFR100

26.08.18

Environmental health

Tanzania and Togo made significant commitments to restore forested landscapes under the AFR100 Initi…

Raising voices for blue forests: A chat with Tanzanian “mangrover” Mwita Mangora

26.08.18

Environmental health

A self-professed “mangrover,” Mwita Mangora lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tan…

Greenpop Malawi tea project conserves soil, water and forests

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

25.08.18

Environmental health

Despite agriculture accounting for 70 percent of Africa’s annual loss of 2.8 million hectares o…

Irrigation technology investments without accompanying policies might worsen water scarcity, new study finds

24.08.18

Environmental health

Washington D.C.: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing t…

Can we actually measure resilience?

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

23.08.18

Environmental health

Resilience is a concept that is being applied to many different domains, from infrastructure’s res…

How to pay for watershed rehabilitation

23.08.18

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands pay a high price for reduced land productivity caused by…

Dangerous times for eco-defenders

22.08.18

Environmental health

Indigenous leader Isidro Baldenegro Lopez tried to protect the old-growth forests of the Sierra Mad…

Top takeaways from mangroves expert Salomão Bandeira on community restoration

22.08.18

Environmental health

Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with …

Community key for successful mangrove restoration, says Lalao Aigrette of Blueventures Madagascar