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Digging deeper: How soil spectroscopy is revolutionizing agriculture in The Gambia

Sandra Cordon
Armed with new tools and training, Gambian scientists are using light and data to unlock the secrets beneath their feet

Hands-on learning from Gergera: Training brings watershed restoration to scale in Tigray

Eyob Getahun
Can a hillside teach restoration? The visit to Gergera offered participants a firsthand look at what’s possible

Gergera Watershed: Where floods are controlled and gullies reclaimed

Eyob Getahun
In Gergera, farmers, scientists and local leaders are showing how degraded landscapes can become productive again
  • News - 8 Jul 2025

    Digging deeper: How soil spectroscopy is revolutionizing agriculture in The Gambia

    Armed with new tools and training, Gambian scientists are using light and data to unlock the secrets beneath their feet
  • Event Coverage - 6 Jul 2025

    Hands-on learning from Gergera: Training brings watershed restoration to scale in Tigray

    Can a hillside teach restoration? The visit to Gergera offered participants a firsthand look at what’s possible
  • News - 4 Jul 2025

    Gergera Watershed: Where floods are controlled and gullies reclaimed

    In Gergera, farmers, scientists and local leaders are showing how degraded landscapes can become productive again
Event Coverage - 27 Jun 2025

Great Green Wall innovations hailed on Desertification and Drought Day

Analysis - 25 Jun 2025

Regulating global trade without harming agroforestry farms?

Event Coverage - 23 Jun 2025

Connected farmers can shift more quickly to agroecology—with the right tools, teams and terms

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    Great Green Wall innovations hailed on Desertification and Drought Day

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    Is ecosystem restoration sufficiently guided by evidence?

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    Hope takes root in Africa: How community-led restoration is driving change

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Video - 2 Jul 2025

Wait, what?! Why is there an international climate conference in the Amazon?

Why is COP30 happening deep in the Amazon? In this episode, we head to Belém do Pará and uncover why this tropical metropolis is a global climate hotspot

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CIFOR-ICRAF at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025

8 May 2025

Can private investment drive forest restoration at scale?

To scale forest restoration, investors need more than trees—they need the right conditions, a new study warns

The green bank: How much do you know about conservation finance?

Biodiversity and forests: Africa strengthens its resilience through regional Centres of Excellence

Sustainable wildlife management in the spotlight at UN biodiversity conference

 

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5 Aug 2024

New Centre of Excellence promotes environmental conservation and climate-smart action in Eastern and Southern Africa

Evidence-based data helps address pressing environmental and social challenges
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10 Jul 2024

Guyanese conservation hero Leroy Ignacio wins ‘Green Oscar’

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19 Jun 2024

A journey across the world’s largest rainforests

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Podcasts

1 Jul 2024

Learning across landscapes

Knowledge from northern Ghana and southern Zambia
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29 Aug 2023

To spray or not to spray

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11 Apr 2022

Celebrating women in environmental conservation

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Q&A

22 May 2025

“REDD+ and other climate mechanisms must be built from the ground up”

Local perceptions of well-being and REDD+ impact in the Peruvian Amazon
18 Sep 2024

Using Facebook to expose illegal sport hunting in Brazil

Researcher Hani Rocha El Bizri shares how scientists are using social media data to expose illegal sport hunting in Brazil
19 Jul 2024

How Latin America can lead on climate, biodiversity & the circular economy

A Q&A with CIFOR-ICRAF's Director for Latin America and Director of Programmes and Platforms
2 Jul 2024

Q&A: Sagesse Nziavake on wildlife monitoring advances in Yangambi, DRC

An expert expounds on the power of camera traps
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VIDEOS

2 Jul 2025

Wait, what?! Why is there an international climate conference in the Amazon?

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“A renaissance of nature” for Africa’s drylands
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“A renaissance of nature” for Africa’s drylands

New book details best approaches to Adaptive Collaborative Management in forests
8 Apr 2022

New book details best approaches to Adaptive Collaborative Management in forests

Yangambi: Building a sustainable landscape that puts people first
12 Feb 2021

Yangambi: Building a sustainable landscape that puts people first

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
19 Jan 2021

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty

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Analysis: Scientists' views

17 Jun 2025

Is ecosystem restoration sufficiently guided by evidence?

Seven recommendations to enhance evidence integration
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13 Jun 2025

Why repurposing harmful subsidies is our main lever for biodiversity funding

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9 Jun 2025

Innovating for resilience: Cultivating climate-ready, multifunctional landscapes through Living Labs

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Photo Essay - 21 Jun 2025

Growing giants: How yams shape identity, knowledge and power in PNG

The art, ancestry and accolades involved in growing giant veges
Photo Essay - 19 Jun 2025

When yams speak of marriage: Ceremonies of exchange on the Managalas Plateau

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Photo Essay - 19 Jun 2025

When yams speak of marriage: Ceremonies of exchange on the Managalas Plateau

On a forested plateau in Papua New Guinea, some staples signify more than just sustenance
News - 15 Jun 2025

Trapped and wasted: Africa’s iconic wildlife face an uncertain future

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News - 15 Jun 2025

Trapped and wasted: Africa’s iconic wildlife face an uncertain future

New study shows an estimated tens of millions of kilograms of wild animal meat is wasted through poor snaring practices every year on the continent
News - 7 Jun 2025

Hope takes root in Africa: How community-led restoration is driving change

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