food security
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Ensuring a nutritious diet for all. Together.
Dietary changes cause a double burden of malnutrition
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Forests can help reshape ‘dysfunctional’ global food system, scientists say
Although many modeling forecasts and government policies suggest that forests must be destroyed to make way for agriculture and provide…
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Defining the role of forests, trees, agroforestry to help curb COVID-19 food crisis
The emergence of the coronavirus has put the world on the brink of a major famine, according to the World…
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Our food system, is it sustainable?
Conservation of biodiversity is not a trade-off, but a major contributor to food security
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Agroforestry ‘basins’ stir up big benefits for women in Kenya drylands
Rethinking traditional farming methods is central to the agricultural landscape restoration process worldwide, a universal challenge with no single solution.…
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Lifting the barriers to improve women and child health in Indonesia’s Komodo
Small-scale coastal fishing in Indonesia can benefit women nutritionally and economically, but in some areas, despite plentiful fish stocks, undernutrition…
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Canadian caribou hunting ban highlights challenges of wildlife management
It could be a hundred years before the number of caribou in the George River Caribou Herd reach levels seen…
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So long, and thanks for all the fish!
In the name of feeding the world, vast swathes of our planet’s forests have been sacrificed to increase the amount…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
Different kinds of land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru have generally improved people’s…
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It isn’t too late…but the clock is ticking
“We have about twenty years to change our acts before something irreversible happens,” said Robert Nasi, director general of the…
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International Forests Day: Two heads look to a future of restoration
Robert Nasi is Director-General of Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Tony Simons is Director-General of World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF).…
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Forest dwellers face mass evictions, as species extinction threatens global food supply
In Forests News last week: Tension and transformation in the patriarchy When managing the forests and rivers in Kenya’s Rift…
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Is our global food system broken?
Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI: The EAT-Lancet report is a very recently published document, which has a couple…
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Trees and forests @COP27: What will countries stump up for climate resilience?
As delegates and communities gather in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt and online for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)…
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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
(Forests News) – When Rosalina Heni is not working in the rice paddy fields in Ribang Kadeng village in the…
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