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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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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age
22.05.18-
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Biodiversity
The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook is a new framework to deliver biodiversity knowledge. Fi…
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Harmonizing crop trait data: Crop Ontology
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Biodiversity
Crop Ontology provides scientists and breeders with a common language that describes crop phenotypes…
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Disrupting agricultural and tree biodiversity science – a review of Bioversity International’s 2017
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, which in 2018 marks 25 years of action…
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How planting trees can protect cocoa plants against climate change
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Worldwide, areas suitable for cocoa production are predicted to shrink by up to 20-30% over…
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Uganda will use trees on farms to meet national biodiversity targets
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Trees on farms in Uganda are the focus of a new strategy aimed at increasing…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
16.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
16.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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GLF summit: Leveraging investment portfolios to manage sustainable landscapes
15.05.18-
Environmental health
More than 900,000 people living off the electrical grid now have improved access to renewable…
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Ivorian seed producers trained in quality rice seed production at AfricaRice M’bé Research Station
15.05.18-
Biodiversity
About 30 Ivorian seed producers participated in a training workshop organized by the Food and…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
15.05.18-
Environmental health
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari villag…
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Firm to pitch $150 million Treenewable Climate Fund in GLF Dragons’ Den
10.05.18-
Environmental health
An investment company managing almost $5 billion in land assets will make a $150 million…
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Disentangling natural resource management impacts – one evaluation at a time
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Last week was a tough one for our small group of IFPRI researchers in Accra.…
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Workshop on data management in agriculture
10.05.18-
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Biodiversity
PhenoHarmonIS workshop 2018 on harmonization of germplasm, phenotypic and agronomic data for plants…
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The road to climate resilience
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related …
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Informing Change in the Indus Basin (ICIB)
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Environmental health
Opportunities for journalists to report on the most pressing environmental and development problems …
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Strategy for agroforestry development in Viet Nam
09.05.18-
Environmental health
Viet Nam is preparing for a long-term strategy to speed adoption of agroforestry throughout the…
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Resolution on harnessing trees on farms for a green economy in the Philippines
09.05.18-
Environmental health
Government agencies, the private sector, NGOs and universities want a new direction for increasing t…
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Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit Memorial Fellowship Fundraising Appeal
09.05.18-
Biodiversity
Following the passing of our dear friend and colleague Dr Bhuwon Sthapit in 2017, Bioversity…
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