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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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Mexico City to host Interdrought 2020
08.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymake…
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Nyando Climate-Smart Village launches community seedbank
07.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers from across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania traveled from their agricultural fields to Nyando in…
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Climate mitigation can support growth in developing countries
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Climate change is already upon us. Proliferating and intensifying natural disasters, soaring numbers…
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Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and n…
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Conference highlights need for increased climate funding for rice agri-food systems
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A global conference is calling for more investment in climate change initiatives for the world’s…
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Disaster Risk Reduction Hub For Koshi River To Be Developed
01.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A recent UNESCAP disaster risk-focused report has identified transboundary river basins in South Asi…
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A new organization born from the merger of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
29.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new organization born from the merger of the CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH (CIFOR)…
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A tipping point for climate action in food systems? Reflections from the UN Climate Action Summit and Climate Week NYC
27.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
This week’s United Nations (UN) Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary General, and…
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Scientists propose a low-cost, reliable system to measure soil organic carbon
26.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research by an international team of scientists, including International Maize and Wheat Improve…
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An urgent need to put forests on the global agenda
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Open letter From Marc Palahí, Director EFI, Robert Nasi, Director General CIFOR and Tony Simons,…
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Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
25.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…
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Policy seminar: Doing more, doing better, and doing new on climate adaptation
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
With the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit and other events—including the recent release of the …
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Breaking news from the United Nations climate action summit…New York
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
CGIAR to get more than $650 Million to accelerate efforts to help 300 million smallholder…
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Immediate action needed to improve soil carbon sequestration: key messages for decision-makers
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Soil organic carbon (SOC) protection and sequestration in agriculture could contribute to the greenh…
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Fostering rural transformation under climate change: suggestions for the Global Commission on Adaptation
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
WAGENINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS (19 September 2019) – The people least responsible for greenhouse gas …
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Climate change is a youth issue
23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate change ranks among the most important dynamics shaping livelihoods of young people now and…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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Climate smart agriculture: a winning strategy for farming families in El Niño seasons
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Approaching the homestead of Joseph Maravire and his wife, Reason, on a warm late August…
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