Legal hubs help identify gaps to support sustainable wildlife management
Wildlife provides a vital source of protein and generates income for millions of forest-dwelling communities in tropical and subtropical regions. However, as…
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Much room for mushrooms in global diets
Small but mighty, mushrooms are packed with nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and protein. As more consumers recognize the importance of…
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Food Systems Summit reveals challenges of transforming global food production
Governments, companies and other organizations offered more than 200 commitments at the world’s first food systems summit aimed at addressing…
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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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Wanted: A balanced assessment of the ecological impact of all vegetable oils
All too often, bias ingrained into conservationist campaign narratives obfuscates the context in which crops are produced, unjustly vilifying some…
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What money won’t buy: Diet quality drops for rural Indonesians as incomes rise
It might seem logical that as people earn more, they are generally “better off.” And it is certainly true that…
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‘Forgotten’ plants a boon for biodiversity
A disproportionate three quarters of human food consumption derives from only 12 plant species and five types of animal, according…
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Logging and mines occupy Baka Pygmy hunting areas in Cameroon
Pushed off their customary lands and severed from their traditional way of life, Indigenous communities living on roadsides in the…
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‘Food trees’ can help meet nutritional and landscape restoration targets
Trees offering nutritional potential through their fruit pulp, fats, oils, starchy shoots and other edible parts grow widely throughout the…
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Yangambi: Building a sustainable landscape that puts people first
Alphonse Selemani is a farmer in Yanonge, a town in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Like most men (and…
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Reforest to stop drought-flood syndrome, says World Food Prize laureate Rattan Lal
From Afghanistan to Cambodia, all throughout the lower Himalayas, extreme weather conditions are becoming the norm. A century ago, the…
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U.N. green cities initiative to promote forestry and sustainable food systems
A new green cities initiative will encourage governments to kickstart large-scale transformative changes to improve food security, nutrition and the…
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