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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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Can our environment survive our food needs? We asked 11 eminent water scientists
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
As the world marks World Environment Day this week, we ponder the links between our…
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Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
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GYF and IITA partner to promote relevant cross cultural environmental education in Nigeria
01.06.18-
Environmental health
Atlanta, GA - Greening Youth Foundation (GYF) and the International Institute of Tropical Agricultur…
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Uncertainty over land rights perceived as top investment risk in new USAID survey
31.05.18-
Environmental health
Insights into the way the private sector deal with risks to their investments stemming from…
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ScienceLine.org: What pushes a major city to the brink of running out of water?
31.05.18-
Environmental health
By April, it became clear the city would just avoid reaching “Day Zero,” the date…
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To survive in climate change, look past targets and focus on the long game
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Under the theme “Building the Investment Case for Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration,” the 2…
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Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?
29.05.18-
Environmental health
Every year, the Peruvian Amazon loses more than 100,000 hectares of forest due to expansion…
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Progress on the process of managing landscapes
28.05.18-
Environmental health
It’s 2018, and the pressure to manage the world’s resources responsibly for people, biodiversity…
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Here’s how to do bean breeding the climate-smart way
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There’s a high likelihood that in 10-30 years’ time, heat stress will become a constraint…
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Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
27.05.18-
Environmental health
Thanks to pressure and advocacy from civil society, governments, shareholders and consumers in the G…
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Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa
25.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives …
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Agroforestry gives Kenyan indigenous community a lifeline
25.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Cherangani people of Kenya were for generations reliant on the forest for hunting, gathering…
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Governance of Natural Resources research in PIM
24.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Why do property rights for land and other natural resources matter? How do they affect…
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A theory of change for better monitoring of the Philippine Enhanced National Greening Program
23.05.18-
Environmental health
A theory of change is guiding the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for…
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TheDiplomat.com: Asia’s Environment Is at a Tipping Point
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Environmental health
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Food security
Better application of scientific knowledge and technology can improve food, water, and energy securi…
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Sharing the knowledge from Mỹ Lợi climate-smart village in Việt Nam
22.05.18-
Environmental health
The widespread adoption of climate-smart agriculture in Việt Nam is underway through knowledge-s…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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International Biodiversity Day: Diversifying agroecosystems to suppress crop pests
22.05.18-
Environmental health
BY WEI ZHANG Insect pests are a major cause of crop yield losses around the…
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