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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 role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
22.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Countries make progress on carbon reduction pledges, but much work remains to be done
19.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By all accounts, countries’ official pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—the nationally d…
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Transforming farmers and plant doctors into pest-smart agents in their communities
19.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers and plant doctors in Ekxang Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Laos were trained on biologically…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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Can you trust the numbers?
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestati…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
Biodiversity
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Combating drought in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Around the world, climate variability provides increasingly challenging environments that farmers mu…
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How over 500 women in south India built sustainable livelihoods in face of drought
14.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
POWERGRID-ICRISAT project in Karnataka empowers through integrated watershed management Farm-depende…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Where — and why — is agroforestry hiding?
12.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Agroforestry, a land-management system that couples the growth of trees and shrubs with crops and…
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Recharging Nepal’s mountain springs
10.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A novel approach for determining where and how to intervene. In mountainous areas of Nepal,…
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High demand for climate info in farm planning
07.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Climate-specific guidance is critical to crop planning ahead of monsoon this year for farmers of…
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
07.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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Will climate change make us go hungry by 2050?
07.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
May it be a lawsuit filed by 21 young plaintiffs against the United States or…
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