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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

26.07.18

Environmental health

The movement to restore degraded land and meet targets under the Paris agreement on climate…

Policy seminar: As IWMI opens its U.S. office, a look at the challenges of achieving global water security

25.07.18

Environmental health
Food security

BY GRACE COLLORD Promoting water security requires both increasing productivity to contend with scar…

Failure to manage blue carbon ecosystems could break the internet

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

24.07.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Failing to properly manage “blue carbon” ecosystems could result in biodiversity losses, pronoun…

Financial benefits for smallholders help realize Kenya Upper Tana landscape initiative

23.07.18

Environmental health

Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has prioritized the protection of its land alongside the…

Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods

19.07.18

Biodiversity
Environmental health

Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air,…

Governing blue carbon – and all that it entails

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

19.07.18

Environmental health

Indonesia - The banks of the Ciliwung River are not grounds for Jakarta’s most desired…

DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity

19.07.18

Biodiversity

Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

18.07.18

Biodiversity
Environmental health

According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a…

Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa

17.07.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…

Threat of cassava mosaic disease, strengthening resilience to climate disasters, dominate conversations between CIAT and Vietnam agricultural institutions

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

13.07.18

Biodiversity
Food security

Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the International Center for Tr…

Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (United Nations): Webcast of remarks by IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

13.07.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Claudia Sadoff addresses the particularly complex targets concerning water scarcity as well as susta…

Coming soon: ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

The guidelines are expected to successfully overcome institutional hurdles and will eventually lead …

CNN.com: Can the Middle East solve its water problem?

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

"When you draw down more water than is replenished, then you begin to degrade the…

Philippine partners learn about mechanized straw collection

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Rice straw is a major residue in Philippine rice farms. Due to lack of awareness…

Reduce bureaucracy for community, indigenous groups embroiled in land rights challenges, report urges

Environmental health

Formal land tenure claims -- often stalled by costly legal disputes lasting up to 30…

Forests and water are inseparable