agriculture
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When communities open their doors: Inside Cameroon’s Climate-Smart Villages
In Cameroon’s North and Far North regions, six Climate-Smart Villages are testing practical ways for communities to adapt to drought,…
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An effective and impactful project: Restoring livelihoods in war-torn Tigray
In the wake of the devastating two-year war that ravaged Ethiopia’sTigray region from November 2020 to November 2024, thousands of…
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Centring innovation in Cameroonian agriculture
To stimulate innovation, it is important—indeed, vital—to ensure interaction between the various stakeholders, including producers, researchers, and outreach agents, sp…
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What’s measured matters: Agrifood system metrics for a finite planet
Our food systems are central to human existence – and major drivers of environmental change, too. As such, it’s not…
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There’s a rainbow in the clouds of climate change – if we act now
Another year, another record. Recent news headlines seem to support the adage that records are made to be broken. Yet…
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Overcoming gender barriers helps families in Ethiopia
Ensuring women have fair and equal access to land and resource benefits through Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) can yield real…
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Cocoa, mangoes and pigs: catalyzing green finance in Ghana
In Eastern Ghana, mango farmer Abraham Akornor – head of the 50-strong Klo Mango Association – shared some of the…
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Will biodiversity talks bridge governmental divide?
Look down on Earth from an eagle’s perspective, and you’ll see that almost half of the world’s habitable land surface…
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Integrating local knowledge into policy is vital to sustainable livelihoods
Communities in southern Zambia rely on local knowledge to manage resources including land, forests and water. They are an example…
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Q+A: Paolo Cerutti on Congo Basin in State of the World’s Forests report
In 2021, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lost almost 500,000 hectares of old-growth forest – mostly due to small-scale farming…
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Beyond the Green Revolution: Clearing a new path for Indian agriculture
“Indian agriculture is in crisis,” said Ravi Prabhu, the Center for International Forestry Research–World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF)’s director of innovation,…
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Palm oil, coffee and songbirds: Toward sustainable trade in Indonesia
Economic interconnectivity – including through international trade — is a mainstay of modern life, delivering life-changing and -saving goods and…
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Women’s land tenure a critical pillar for climate action, COP26 delegates say
Worldwide, fewer than 15 percent of landholders are women, a disparity that has significant consequences for the general status and…
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Rethink diet-land use connections to prevent future pandemics, scientist says
Terry Sunderland on CBC radio’s “The Current”
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Forest restoration could ringfence $6.3 trillion in ecosystem services
The price of deforestation and degradation is enormous, said Robert Nasi, director general of CIFOR and managing director of CIFOR-ICRAF,…
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