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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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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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Scientist’s fuel-efficient stove-for-work program in Ethiopia protects trees
08.03.18-
Environmental health
Ethiopia has experienced significant deforestation over the past century – driven by rapid populat…
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Why sustainable water management needs more than technologies
05.03.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
There are many technologies can reduce water input in irrigation schemes but many other factors…
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Peru and Bioversity International sign an agreement to advance research on cocoa
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Out of 40 project proposals, the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru selected the top 6,…
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On the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a call for conserving the rest of the world's food
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
This week Ann Tutwiler was privileged to join the celebration of the 10th anniversary of…
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Woman on a mission: Pushing for rights and a seat at the decision-making table
28.02.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR Rural women face a range of challenges across the environmental secto…
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Celebrating CGIAR “Global Gatekeepers” of Crop Diversity
27.02.18-
Biodiversity
“Genebanks are the backbone of CGIAR innovation. They ensure that thousands of scientists – acr…
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Is the Current Agriculture Technology Strategy Unsuitable for Getting Smallholders Out of Poverty?
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
Currently, agriculture technology strategies are mostly based on implementing technologies and innov…
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Jean Hanson: Building the next generation of genebank managers
22.02.18-
Biodiversity
Jean Hanson, the retiring leader of the Forage Diversity Project at the International Livestock Rese…
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ACM levels the playing field for women and men in forest-adjacent communities
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Photo by John Baptist Wandera/CIFOR Aimed at enhancing women’s participation as well as identifyin…
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Examining the Philippines energy future and low-carbon development strategies
14.02.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The new paper presents an assessment of alternative, long-term energy supply and low-carbon strategi…
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The bean that could withstand hurricanes
13.02.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
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FTA and IUFRO highlight cooperation at Global Landscapes Forum
24.01.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Photo by Nanang Sujana/CIFOR The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) and…
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FTA scientists feature in innovative series of talks on landscapes
22.01.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF Landscapes Talks, which piqued the interest of audiences at the recent…
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Good investments in agriculture and forestry can benefit smallholders and landscapes
16.01.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF With companies increasingly being seen as key partners in scaling-up eff…
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Orphan crops for improving diets
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Photo by K. Kehlenbeck/ICRAF Orphan crops, so-called because they are considered neglected and under…
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Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Across Health, Development, and Environment
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Environmental health
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Health
Oct 25, 2017 Press Release Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Acro…
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