Blog for People, Food and Nature

Big Facts is two things. First, it's a new way to visualize facts related to climate change, agriculture and food security. Second, it's a source for reliable information on these issues amid a dizzying array of claims that appear in reports, advocacy materials, and other sources. Site users can search for relevant fa…

Editor's note: Jesse Last of Root Capital, a social investment fund that provides credit and financial training to agricultural enterprises in Africa and Latin America, discusses how Root Capital integrates social and environmental factors into credit decisions. The organization supports businesses that are positio…

Editor's note: Our guest authors today highlight work that marries climate change and sustainable supply chains. Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, along with its climate module, are operating at the farm level up along the supply chain to achieve landscape-scale benefits for produc…

On January 27th, 2014, USAID launched a second version of their framework for natural resource management, Nature Wealth and Power 2.0 (NWP 2.0) at the first of 4 ECO (Environmental Communication, Learning and Outreach) events focusing on knowledge management. NWP 2.0 is USAID’s newly updated framework for practition…

Secure land tenure and resource rights is often cited as an important foundation for long-term sustainable land management, and can provide the incentive needed to maintain multiple ecosystem and livelihood benefits on the land. In order to get a better sense of where the challenges are and what their nature is, the Wo…

Smallholders in Africa often look to clear trees on their land to make way for more crops. Around the world, from subsistence farmers to giant agriculture operations, clearing trees from land is a common response to increasing pressure to produce more food for more mouths. But for a farmer with hungry children, those …