March 26, 2015
Indigenous Landscapes Provide Foods and Funds in Obalanga Subcounty, Uganda
Esezah Kakudidi
Makerere University
Samuel Ojelel
The subsistence farming communities in Obalanga are reliant on their indigenous landscapes for a wide array of services. The communities benefit from provisionary services (e.g. food), regulative services (e.g. local climate moderation), supportive services (e.g. soil fertility) and cultural services (e.g. recreation) from these landscapes. These interactions are pertinent in t ...
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March 22, 2015
Celebrating past watershed project successes and looking toward the future
Marissa Sherman
EcoAgriculture Partners
Water resource preservation and agricultural development are greatly interconnected. Both healthy communities and resilient livelihoods often hinge on proper water resource management. World Water Day 2015 is the perfect opportunity to shed some light on projects that the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative has been working on to restore and preserve watersheds. R ...
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March 19, 2015
Potential for Nutrition Gains in Nepal through its Agriculture Sector
Jess Fanzo
Columbia University
Agricultural and food systems around the world have evolved to become more complex and globalized. The nutritional quality of food production, processing, and consumption – as determined by the food system – is intrinsically related to the World Summit goal for all people to have the opportunity to lead a healthy and active life. Nutrition-sensitive […] ...
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March 13, 2015
Management of stingless bees in the Balsas River Basin, Michoacán, Mexico
Octavio Reyes Salas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Arturo Argueta Villamar
Alejandro Casas
Andrés Camou-Guerrero
Alejandro Reyes González
Stingless bees belong to the order of insects called Hymenoptera and are globally recognized as a very large group of bees, between 400 and 500 species. Tropical regions of the American Continent are considered a center of diversification of stingless bees. In the case of Mexico, there are 46 species of stingless bees, and 26 […] ...
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March 10, 2015
Learning from experience: Connecting Landscape Leaders in Ethiopia
At first impression, the Amhara region of Ethiopia may seem drab and barren. Knowing of the degradation that happened to these landscapes, I didn’t expect to see much more than scrubland. A recent visit to the Aba Gerima watershed, however, showed me a much greener picture, where a team from the Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) […] ...
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March 6, 2015
Creating a Sustainable Future Requires the Empowerment of Women
Laurie Benson
1% For Women
Women constitute half of our global population, and the timing is crucial for us to invest in women as agents of change. The link between natural resource depletion, gender inequality, conflict and peace building can no longer be ignored. It is a lack of access to natural resources that ultimately leads to the destabilization of […] ...
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March 4, 2015
Forests a Food Security Blanket for Communities in India
Salome Yesudas
Rukmini Rao
Gramya Resource Centre for Women
Debal Deb
Kavitha Kuruganti
Countries like India, which claim to have reduced poverty yet have had no reductions in hunger and malnutrition, present quite a paradox that must be addressed. The food sovereignty framework, introduced by the Sustainable Development Goals debate, is promising because it addresses the fact that hunger and malnutrition are not just a supply problem, but […] ...
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March 2, 2015
De-commodifying Food: the last frontier in the civic claim of the commons
Jose Luis Vivero Pol
Université catholique de Louvain
The socially constructed nature of food as a private good is being necessarily re-conceived as a commons, a crucial narrative for the transition from the dominating industrial food system towards a more sustainable system that is fairer to food producers and consumers. Food is a natural resource that is essential for human existence and has […] ...
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