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Maintaining forests protects Africa’s agrifood systems

22/12/2025 Ewald Rametsteiner

When forests thrive, so do communities and agriculture. We must recognise and strengthen the ties between conservation and agrifood resilience.

Across Africa, forests and trees offer support in the form of food, shelter, medicines and fuel, as some examples. In many rural areas, forests also supply around 20 percent of household income.

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Seeing the whole field: Why surveillance on antimicrobial resistance must span plants as well as animals

24/11/2025 Alejandro Dorado Garcia AND Kim-Anh Tempelman

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Unlocking the potential of youth: an economic imperative

13/11/2025 Kazuki Kitaoka and Lauren Michelle Phillips

Engaging youth in the workforce is a moral responsibility and economic opportunity that could grow the global economy by USD 1.5 trillion.

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A turning point for the world’s forests

23/10/2025 Zhimin Wu

Each year, we still lose around 10.9 million hectares of forests. But that’s not the full picture. FAO’s latest Global Forest Resources Assessment shows hope for the world’s forests.

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Why innovation sometimes fails us and how we can fix it

10/10/2025 Vincent Martin

The future will not be shaped by technology alone, but by how well we align innovation with the needs of people and the planet’s resources.

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We can’t meet our climate goals without financing agrifood systems

10/09/2025 Kaveh Zahedi

Agrifood systems have the potential to reduce one-third of the world’s emissions, yet they receive less than 8% of climate finance, threatening progress in global climate goals.

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