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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
16.05.25-
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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Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity?
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Humans generate heaps of waste every day. Waste rich in energy, nutrients, or water. Most…
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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration o…
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Soil health scheme for farmers in Odisha – to benefit 4.35 million farmers in 30 districts
09.04.18-
Environmental health
Bhoochetana, an initiative that has transformed lives of several million farmers in Karnataka, is no…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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To fix landscapes, first get the right tools
05.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
By pledging to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land, countries take a…
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Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees?
04.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Agroforestry can make a key contribution to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which aims to…
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Water for Food: PhilRice and IRRI jointly organized field day to create awareness on sustainable water management
02.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
After the field demonstration, the participants were shown other water-saving technologies. Engr. Le…
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The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Forest fact or fiction
26.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Last Wednesday marked the seventh International Day of Forests, an occasion to celebrate our forests…
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ArkansasOnline.com: UN biodiversity report paints bleak picture
26.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
WASHINGTON — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a significant rate, according…
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Dam right: Improving opportunities for reservoir fisheries
26.03.18-
Environmental health
Sustainable Development Goal 6 commits the world to ensuring that everyone has access to safe…
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Turning down the heat in Indonesia’s oil palm industry
25.03.18-
Environmental health
In Indonesia, palm oil is a hot industry in more ways than one. In 2015…
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Launch of the IPBES regional assessments
24.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…
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Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…
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InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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Health
UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…
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The power of science to halt deforestation
23.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…
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