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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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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
23.03.18-
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IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara
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Environmental health
March 22, 2018 IFPRI Blog Hua Xie Claudia Ringler World Water Day: Feeding millions from…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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At the World Water Forum 2018
21.03.18-
Environmental health
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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Halting deforestation is ‘everyone’s fight’
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Photo by N. Sujana/CIFOR Halting and reversing deforestation are key to achieving the Sustainable De…
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International Day of Forests. What is the state of the world’s forests?
21.03.18-
Environmental health
When it comes to caring for forests, it’s not only a matter of what forests…
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Happy International Day of Forests! Take our quiz
21.03.18-
Environmental health
Subscribe to have our monthly update delivered to your inbox. The post Happy International…
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Water-energy-food weave a tangled web. Here’s how we can navigate it.
20.03.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
As we mark World Water Day on March 22, researchers explore the complexity of sharing…
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Designing a better Soil Health Card for farmers in India
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Environmental health
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March 19, 2018 IFPRI Blog Vartika Singh Sujata Ganguly Designing a better Soil Health Card…
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DOIs: A new era for germplasm labelling
18.03.18-
Biodiversity
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) have now been chosen to provide a globally unique and permanent…
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Policy seminar: Integrating research and natural resource management for sustainable agriculture
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March 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Shelleka Darby Policy seminar: Integrating research and natural resource m…
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Have ESR-sponsored training courses stimulated uptake of ecosystem service science?
15.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Between 2014 and 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)…
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PIM pre-conference workshop on rural transformation at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Selected papers
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PIM will convene a pre-conference workshop "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challeng…
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UN Chronicle: Coming to grips with water security in the face of climate change
13.03.18-
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How people in high-risk areas of Africa and Asia can come to grips with water…
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How rice plants “manage” water under drought
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Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an…
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IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
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