April 18, 2015
A Multi-sectoral Approach is Key for a Sustainable Future
Marissa Sherman
EcoAgriculture Partners
This week, I had the pleasure to represent EcoAgriculture Partners (and livetweet) the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability. The event focused on the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system. Along with presenting the most pressing problems the world faces, the event highlighted a possible solutio ...
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April 7, 2015
Calling all Land Managers: Give us Your Dirt!
Louis Wertz
EcoAgriculture Partners
During Global Soil Week, April 19th-23rd, stakeholders from the around the world will join forces to discuss the role of sustainable soil management in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. So this month the Landscapes for People, Food, and Nature Blog is digging deeper into soil. And we want you, landscape managers, to join the discussion! […] ...
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April 4, 2015
Something to talk about: expanding the conversation on Climate-Smart Agriculture
Lucila Fernandez
EcoAgriculture Partners
This past March, Krista Heiner, a project manager at EcoAgriculture Partners, joined hundreds of scientists, policy makers, and practitioners in Montpellier, France, who all had one mission in mind: to identify ways to achieve agricultural development in the face of climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was the center of the conversation; the international community, ...
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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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February 5, 2015
Business Thinking about the Landscape Approach
Marissa Sherman
EcoAgriculture Partners
Now more than ever, public-private partnerships are seen as essential to address critical risks related to deforestation, climate change, water scarcity, and poverty and to driving sustainable economic development. In looking at landscape initiatives around the globe, businesses, both big and small, are important stakeholders of rural landscapes contributing to and dependent ...
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December 22, 2014
Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs
Krista Heiner
EcoAgriculture Partners
By 2050, the United Nations estimates the global population will exceed 9 billion people and world food demand will grow by about 70% from 2000. Agricultural production can be increased through intensification, which reduces the spread of agriculture to new land through increased use of fertilizer, pesticide and water inputs, shorter fallow periods, and improved […] ...
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October 31, 2014
Lessons Learned from the National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation
Eva Fillion
EcoAgriculture Partners
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature initiative tends to focus primarily on projects taking place in developing countries, but it is important to remember that creating a healthy and resilient food system requires challenging efforts and innovation in the global North as well. Last week’s National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation was the perfect […] ...
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October 29, 2014
Agriculture and Climate Change: The State of Ecosystems and Human Systems in the Tropics
Sarina Katz
EcoAgriculture Partners
Biodiversity and food insecurity in the tropics The 3rd International Conference on Biodiversity and the UN Millennium Development Goals (entitled Biodiversity and Food Security – From Trade-offs to Synergies) is currently underway in France. The conference serves as a platform to discuss the loss of biodiversity at all levels and food security challenges caused by […] ...
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October 15, 2014
Addressing Gender Inequality in Climate Change Programs and Policies
Sarina Katz
EcoAgriculture Partners
The United Nations’ groundbreaking Millennium Development Goals (MDG) were signed by all 189 member states at the turn of the century in 2000 with eight goals aimed at reducing global poverty and its related consequences by the year 2015. In addition to income and hunger, the goals are tied to health, education, gender inequalities, and […] ...
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October 3, 2014
Four Things I Learned From the Equator Prize Award Ceremony
Margie Miller
EcoAgriculture Partners
Last month, I blogged about the Equator Prize, which honors community-based groups for achievements in “advancing local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.” Today I’m going to share four things I learned at the award ceremony, which took place September 20th. Jane Goodall hasn’t heard of the landscape approach…but ...
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