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Climate risks and opportunities need to be incorporated into the financial system as well as public policymaking and infrastructure. There is a lot of talk about getting back to normal after the Covid-19 crisis is over. And yet normal – business as usual – is what has made our planet and our societies vulnerable to crises in the first place. Normal means cutting down huge swathes of…

Biodiversity is critically important to human health, economies and livelihoods. Humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild animals and half of all plants. To mark the International Day for Biodiversity, here are five reasons why biodiversity matters to humans – and why we need to protect it. Biodiversity is critically important – to your health, to your safety and,…

For decades, coffee was Kenya's largest export, and it still supports the lives of 600,000 farmers there. But disease and low prices have wiped out nearly 60% of production. Coffee-growing families in the Mount Kenya region that could pay their children's school fees 20 years ago are now struggling to make ends meet. Francescah Munyi's mother is one of those farmers. That's partly…

Renewable energy can play a key role in adjusting the global food systems at the time of COVID-19. A “re-localization” of food supply chains is needed, and renewable energy can greatly contribute to the necessary policy interventions needed to achieve it. As the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 continues to spread in developed and developing countries alike, not all have the…

This brief describes implementation work under the ICRAF led project “Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale”. Addressing land degradation is key to achieving food and nutrition security and requires active and deliberate engagement of multiple stakeholders (including farmers,…

Research from Macquarie University has revealed a gloomy future for Australia’s river network with dramatic impacts predicted for people, industries and wildlife owing to climate change. In an article published in Scientific Reports, Macquarie University’s Wetlands in Drylands researchers Zacchary Larkin, Tim Ralph and colleagues modelled how increasing aridity, under even a relatively…