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H&M targets 100% recycled or sustainably sourced materials by 2030

Climate Change

H&M targets 100% recycled or sustainably sourced materials by 2030

24 Mar 2026

Global Citizen and the Waislitz Foundation announce the 2025 Global Citizen Waislitz Award winners

CSI & Philanthropy

Global Citizen and the Waislitz Foundation announce the 2025 Global Citizen Waislitz Award winners

Issued by OnPoint PR 7 Aug 2025

A woman uses a donkey cart to transport a barrel of water in drought affected areas in Higlo Kebele, Adadle woreda, Somali region of Ethiopia, in this undated handout photograph. Michael Tewelde/World Food Programme/Handout via Reuters/ File Photo

Climate Change

Climate Investment Funds board backs $500m Ethiopia nature plan

Simon Jessop 6 Dec 2024

2024 GoGettaz Agripreneur finalists announced

Agriculture

2024 GoGettaz Agripreneur finalists announced

5 Aug 2024

A girl carries a jerrycan filled with water at a Tolou Keur garden in the Walalde department of Podor, in the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel area, Senegal, 11 July 2021. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Climate Change

Will Africa's Great Green Wall hit 2030 goal?

Simon Jessop and Alessandra Prentice 13 Jun 2024

IITA collaborates with global leaders to transform African agriculture

Agriculture

IITA collaborates with global leaders to transform African agriculture

29 Jan 2024

Eni bets on agribusiness in Africa to expand biofuel production

Energy

Eni bets on agribusiness in Africa to expand biofuel production

Francesca Landini 1 Jun 2023

Forestry: The surprise weapon in the fight against climate change

Forestry

Forestry: The surprise weapon in the fight against climate change

18 Mar 2022

Demand for meat is driving deforestation in Brazil - changing the soy industry could stop it

Forestry

Demand for meat is driving deforestation in Brazil - changing the soy industry could stop it

Angela Guerrero and Malika Virah-Sawmy 4 Jan 2021

Key insights into land degradation from seven African countries

Forestry

Key insights into land degradation from seven African countries

Karl Hughes 5 Oct 2020

How to reverse global wildlife declines by 2050

Environment & Natural Resources

How to reverse global wildlife declines by 2050

Michael Obersteiner, David Leclère, Piero Visconti 15 Sep 2020

Restoring soil can help address climate change

Sustainable Farming

Restoring soil can help address climate change

David R. Montgomery 14 Aug 2019

Entrepreneurs called to tackle land restoration in Africa

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs called to tackle land restoration in Africa

16 Aug 2019

New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long term

Climate Change

New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long term

Chris E. Forest 13 Aug 2019

Agroecology as innovation

Agriculture

Agroecology as innovation

Timothy A. Wise 11 Jul 2019

New report: Setting realistic targets for biofuel production in sub-Saharan Africa

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

New report: Setting realistic targets for biofuel production in sub-Saharan Africa

25 Jan 2019

Why massive effort needs to be put into growing trees on farms

Forestry

Why massive effort needs to be put into growing trees on farms

Philip Dobie 3 Dec 2018

Photo: Shutterstock

Mining

Finding ways to keep communities alive after mine closures

17 Jul 2018

FAO, UNHCR's forest management tool a guide to restoring deforestation in displaced communities

Forestry

FAO, UNHCR's forest management tool a guide to restoring deforestation in displaced communities

22 Jun 2018

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Agriculture

Can agriculture and the climate fix their 'unhappy marriage' in 2018?

Thin Lei Win 4 Jan 2018

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Agriculture

The immense challenge of desertification in sub-Saharan Africa

Nabil Ben Khatra, Maud Loireau 9 Oct 2017

The new face of the Sahel

Climate Change

The new face of the Sahel

Ernest Harsch 20 Sep 2017

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Agriculture

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Sam Otieno 7 Sep 2017

Agriculture

ICRAF presents the role of evidence and improved soil management for land restoration in sub-Saharan Africa

Susan Onyango 12 Jul 2017

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

Agriculture

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

26 Jun 2017

Agriculture

Africa could help feed the world - if its fertile land doesn't vanish

Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

Agriculture

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

Creating a sustainable cycle

Mining

Creating a sustainable cycle

9 Jun 2017

Agriculture

Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet)

Sarah Johnson 31 Mar 2017

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Biomass project creates opportunity for mining community

20 Mar 2017

Antoinetorrens via - Gishwati hills, Rwanda

Agribusiness

New policy for Rwanda urban forestry

Athan Tashobya 5 Sep 2016

Dept to ring-fence fishing quotas for youth

Administration

Dept to ring-fence fishing quotas for youth

30 May 2013

Tourism

Greening initiatives for EC

Vuvu Vena 11 May 2012

Successful invasive plants eradication scheme outgrows R1bn budget

Environment & Natural Resources

Successful invasive plants eradication scheme outgrows R1bn budget

9 Mar 2012