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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...

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Avoiding 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...

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Mainstreaming 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...

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Revisiting 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...

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A 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...

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Ten 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...

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10 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...

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Accounting 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...

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The 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...

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Finding 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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