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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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Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
06.07.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
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Damned if you don’t!
05.07.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.…
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Momentum for U.N. decade of ecological restoration grows ahead of Nairobi GLF
02.07.18-
Environmental health
A proposal by Brazil to pool global resources and dedicate 10 years to promoting the…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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New Colombia green belt provides protective barrier for Amazon biome
29.06.18-
Environmental health
A 9.2 million hectare landscape restoration corridor in Colombia will link the borders of Brazil…
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RiceStrawPH: IRRI teams up with Philippine partners for sustainable rice straw management project
29.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Philippines produces 15.2 million tons of rice; leaving 11.3 tons of rice straw spread…
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Three questions on ecotourism with Robyn Nixon
27.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As environmental responsibility increasingly pervades lifestyle habits – from fashion to farmers m…
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Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island
26.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Restoring degraded land is a major global challenge made more urgent by a changing climate,…
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A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones
22.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenya…
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FAO.org: Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world’s water
22.06.18-
Environmental health
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Health
New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.…
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Critically endangered mountain gorilla population grows despite threats to forest habitat
21.06.18-
Environmental health
The number of critically endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the ra…
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Daniel Debouck: The man who knows his beans
21.06.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck, former CGIAR CIAT genebank manager, has dedicated 40 years of his professional life…
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Blogs.WorldBank.org: Secrets to successful irrigation management from Central Asia
21.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 60 percent of the region’s people are employed by the agricultural sector, which depends…
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More people, more food, worse water?
21.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Turning around a "toxic" relationship.…
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Stakeholders learn about sustainable rice straw management in Vietnam
20.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Rice straw management remains to be one of Vietnam’s biggest agricultural challenges. On average, …
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Reversing Land Degradation by Scaling up Evergreen Agriculture in Africa (Regreening Africa)
20.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The UN General Assembly declared 17th June the World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) to…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
19.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cameroon - Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood…
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TheDiplomat: The Impact of Migration on Water Scarcity in Central Asia
19.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?…
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