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With food systems reported to account for 15% of global fossil fuel use, a new study raised the alarm on food production reliance on petrochemicals ahead of the...
This article by Sebastian Kratzer from HD’s Mediation Support and Policy Unit is based on a panel discussion at the EU’s 2023 Peace Mediation Community of...
Food production in the Niger Delta is declining because of the oil industry. This is having a negative effect on the culture of local people, writes Bose...
The task for governments in the Sahel region of Africa is significant. They must tackle the persistent problem of extremism, which is being further complicated...
Ukraine’s environment is being poisoned by the by-products of the Russian war of aggression, polluting the land, water, and air, and exposing humans, plants...
From climate change to biodiversity loss, food waste to conflict, these colliding disasters must be tackled together, and sustainable agrifood systems are key...
Climate change poses a risk to global food security. Weather and climate extremes, such as prolonged drought, heavy rainfall and heatwaves, can lead to harvest...
Governments have agreed a set of guidelines to protect the environment during and after wartime, the most significant legal update on the issue in 50 years.
A recently published paper authored by researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)...
Massive monsoon flooding has followed a severe drought in Pakistan’s Sindh province, with experts saying that climate change is making farming ‘more challenging...
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded a...
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, food insecurity and food prices have become increasingly concerning. However, the focus has largely been on...
Much of the food that we consume today involves trade. However, climate targets, and the way in which emissions are reported, do not sufficiently reflect this...
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has long been the poor relation of environmental conventions, but the problems are now too vast to ignore at COP15...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
A new report from the IPCC finds that the world could face a more than 3° Celsius increase in the global average temperature over pre-industrial levels based on...
Biotechnology can aid conventional agriculture in major food producing countries such as Argentina by incorporating genetic material into crops. But its use is...