The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale Sep 29, 2022 jmcquaid Thu, 09/29/2022 – 10:50 The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale Ma. Eliza Villarino Augusto Castro Nunes Seeking big ideas for sustainability. IFPRI […]

Two and a half hours’ drive north from Kakarbhitta, Nepal’s eastern-most border crossing with giant neighbour India, lies the hilly hamlet of Salakpur where lives Kaushila Moktan, a famed farmer of large cardamom. “I run a homestay for guests visiting our village, I also grow green vegetables and do beekeeping,” […]

Photo: Pixabay/arniii  By Kassia Rudd The environmental mantra of Malmö sounds simple: it should be easy for the Swedish city’s residents to make climate-smart choices. Local targets, however, are anything but easy: reducing Malmö’s climate impacts, greening its urban environment, and enriching local biodiversity and ecosystem health – all by […]

Digitalization has great potential to drive progress towards an inclusive future for the world’s smallholder farmers, and can help galvanize greater productivity and sustainability of agrifood systems, as well as improve livelihoods and options for women and youth, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United […]

What You Need to Know In a Minute or Less As discussed in the first three editions of this Mass Arbitration series, little relief may be available once a company is caught in the mass arbitration trap. Mass arbitrations can be frustrating for companies that initially sought to streamline the […]

Country: Pakistan Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative Pakistan is one of just two countries where the polio virus remains endemic. Challenges remain in identifying and vaccinating all children, but data management software is providing a way forward.

Two air force fighter jets escorted a Singapore Airlines plane traveling from San Francisco to Changi Airport after a passenger made a hoax bomb threat.

Photo: Pixabay/Schäferle  Palm trees are hardy perennials. There they are on scenic sandy beaches across much of the world, providing picturesque contrasts to them. Yet this seeming ubiquity of palms hides an alarming truth: nearly 1,000 palm species are at risk of going extinct around the planet. A team of […]