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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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Social forestry impacts local livelihoods in Indonesia
23.04.18-
Environmental health
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In a two-part series, the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forests News examin…
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Earth Day, Animal Day
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
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Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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Earth Day 2018: Solar-powered irrigation can boost rural development, but also poses risks
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Environmental health
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BY AVINASH KISHORE Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural productio…
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Global emissions targets in focus at rainforest summit in Indonesia
19.04.18-
Environmental health
Discussions at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) in Indonesia next week will kick off with…
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Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
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Biodiversity
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Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than…
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Is waste the next big business opportunity?
17.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness waste to help fill the world’s…
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Why social forestry: Securing the sap
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a forest in southwestern Sumatra, Dedy Aprianto starts clearing the undergrowth below a damar…
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Community land rights open investment opportunities in global south
16.04.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The devolution of land tenure rights to forest-dwelling communities over the past quarter century ha…
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Injecting diversity to bolster immunity to climate change and food insecurity
16.04.18-
Biodiversity
Bioversity International’s Senior Scientist Stefano Padulosi and Principal Economist Adam Drucker …
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Why social forestry: Keeping the coffee
15.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a lush valley in Lampung Province in the southern tip of Sumatra sits the…
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Policy seminar and special event: Tales of yield improvement and farewell to Mark Rosegrant
12.04.18-
Environmental health
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BY SHELLEKA DARBY IFPRI marked the path-breaking career of Senior Research Fellow and retiring Envir…
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Crop research needs a system of integrated labs across the globe
11.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY MARK ROSEGRANT Despite advances in agricultural productivity thanks to higher and more stable cro…
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Sustainable land bonds may offer a fresh path forward
11.04.18-
Environmental health
Tropical forest countries could soon use a new financial mechanism to access the capital they…
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Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites …
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How to develop and manage your own community seedbank
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Biodiversity
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Ronnie Vernooy, Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Bioversity International, reports on a new hand…
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Counting down: Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ loss of Borneo orangutans
10.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Once, there were hundreds of thousands of orangutans roaming the island of Borneo. Over the…
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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