Land degradation

As land degradation accelerates across Africa, Asia and Latin America, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) urgently calls to step up restoration efforts.

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Over the course of five days, the World Food Forum featured more than 200 events spotlighting youth engagement, investment, and the role of science and innovation in agrifood systems.

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SDGs

One month after the SDG Summit in New York/USA, Welthungerhilfe invited experts to Berlin to discuss which measures must now be taken to achieve SDG 2 and what role Germany should play in this context.

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Bioenergy

The 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Bio-energy Research 2023 (ICRABR-2023) was envisioned to serve as a holistic learning event and congregation of all the stakeholders in the bioenergy sector…

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Finance

The World Bank will in future offer stronger financing incentives for projects that benefit not only individual countries but the whole world – ranging from climate action projects to preserving biodiversity and pandemic…

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At a recent conference, speakers outlined numerous ways how Africa and its people can build resilience to the climate crisis and other ecological challenges.

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Food security

Multiple overlapping crises are impeding global efforts to tackle hunger, according to the 2023 Global Hunger Index, which shows that hunger are at “serious” or “alarming” levels in 43 countries.

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Deforestation

Changes in forest degradation are closely linked to monsoon circulation. Forest loss in the Amazon rainforest could therefore be contributing to a changing climate in South America, leading to a regime shift in the…

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Environment

The second major planetary boundaries update since the framework was introduced in 2009 provides a complete check-up of all nine processes and systems that determine the stability and resilience of our planet.

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Food systems

This year's Tropentag – one of the biggest scientific conferences in central Europe on agriculture, nutrition and food security in the Global South - was dedicated to the topic "Competing pathways for equitable food…

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