Climate change

Rising temperatures could drive food inflation up by 3.2 percentage points and overall inflation by 1.18 percentage points annually by 2035, according to a new study by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)…

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Agriculture

Mixing livestock and crops, integrating flower strips and trees, water and soil conservation and much more – a new global study has examined the effects of diversified agriculture. The conclusion is abundantly clear –…

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Water

Climate change has been described as the urgent catalyst for collaboration over water security in three key river basins in Asia – the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra – by experts. They recommend that local…

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Households across all continents wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. Food waste continues to hurt the global…

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Education

VR glasses are hardly a conventional tool in agriculture. For the last three years, they have been used in rural areas of Burkina Faso and Cameroon as a training tool for sustainable cotton cultivation. The benefits of…

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Health

Kenyan farmers are aware of many dangers which the use of antibiotics in livestock bears, a study led by CABI has revealed. They nevertheless apply risky practices.

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Environment

There can be no analysis without data. In this spirit, researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany and the Swiss Federal Institution of Technology (ETH) Zurich have published a database containing over 6,000…

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Health

Across the Africa region, the World Health Organization says there are around 25.6 million people living with HIV, while about 380,000 people died from AIDS-related illness in 2022. Researchers believe that droughts…

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Natural resources

In the last five years, rising trends in global resource use have continued or accelerated, and demand for resources is expected to increase further. This means that without urgent and concerted action, by 2060, resource…

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Indigenous people

Despite the pledge by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to “leave no-one behind”, even today, a disproportionately high number of indigenous people live in poverty. One of the reasons for this is their limited…

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