Managing Water in Agroecosystems for Multiple Services
The reliance upon water for the many services ecosystems provide, forms the basis for a recent report published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Releasing the Pressure: Water Resource...
View ArticleAvoiding Future Famines
In an event yesterday, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) released the report Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Foundation of Food Security through Sustainable Food...
View ArticleMainstreaming Biodiversity and Development
National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, or NBSAPs, are national-level instruments for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity. As part of the Convention, signatory countries are...
View ArticleRevisiting Cropland for Biodiversity Conservation
While last week the Landscapes Blog paid particular attention to the part a productive landscape plays in maintaining ecosystem services, this week actually marks the first meeting of the...
View ArticleA World of Waste
Food loss and waste has been a hot topic the past couple of weeks. A new report by the UK-based Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not, estimates that 30-50% of all food...
View ArticleTen Commandments in Our Nutrient World
Friday marks the annual observance of World Water Day, during which issues around freshwater management come to the forefront. One of the major threats to the quality of freshwater resources is...
View Article10 Ways To Cut Global Food Loss And Waste
This post originally appeared on WRI Insights, the blog of Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative co-organizer World Resources Institute. We are cross-posting to wrap up our World...
View ArticleAccounting for Natural Capital
Last week we observed World Population Day with an acknowledgement that a growing human population requires certain resources to sustain itself, and the current approach to using land and water...
View ArticleThe UNEP Emissions Gap Report and Climate-Smart Agriculture: ICRAF COP19 Side...
There is a definite role for agriculture to play in climate change mitigation, but still far too little information on the scale of its potential contribution. This was the overriding message from...
View ArticleFinding a Place for REDD+ in Sustainable Landscapes
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative has a potentially large role to play in international actions to combat climate change. Sustainable management of...
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