News

26.03.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

WASHINGTON — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a significant rate, according…

Dam right: Improving opportunities for reservoir fisheries

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

26.03.18

Environmental health

Sustainable Development Goal 6 commits the world to ensuring that everyone has access to safe…

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

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

24.03.18

Biodiversity
Environmental health

The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…

Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Environmental health
Food security
Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…

InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Environmental health
Health

UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…

The power of science to halt deforestation

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…

How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…

World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara

22.03.18

Environmental health

March 22, 2018 IFPRI Blog Hua Xie Claudia Ringler World Water Day: Feeding millions from…

JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water

22.03.18

Big data
Environmental health

While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…

At the World Water Forum 2018

Environmental health

The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…

World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…

EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…

Halting deforestation is ‘everyone’s fight’

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Photo by N. Sujana/CIFOR Halting and reversing deforestation are key to achieving the Sustainable De…

International Day of Forests. What is the state of the world’s forests?

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Environmental health

When it comes to caring for forests, it’s not only a matter of what forests…

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