Private sector innovations reduce food loss in West Africa
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Together we stand: A policy approach to reducing food loss in West Africa
West African countries have recognized that when it comes to food security, no nation is an island. Since achieving independence, West African countries have strived for regional integration. By building…
West Africa’s weakest links: Supply chain defects are behind worst food waste
For produce raised on some of Senegal’s most fertile cropland, the shortest route to the richest urban markets runs through another country. This geographic reality, with its multiple logistical hurdles,…
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Amazon Conservation
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- Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections
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Land rights and extractives
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Endangered Environmentalists
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- Vietnam’s environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space
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Indonesia's Forest Guardians
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- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
Conservation Effectiveness
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- Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics
- Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows
Southeast Asian infrastructure
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