Blog for People, Food and Nature

February 9, 2018

Landscapes, territories and the challenge of merging socio-ecological and socio-political strategies for sustainable development

Sara Scherr EcoAgriculture Partners

Reflections from my trip to Montpellier, France, in late January for the ‘Living Territories’ conference. I joined more than 250 others at the event, organized by CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, to debate and take stock of territorial approaches. Though my work at EcoAgriculture Partners in the past 15 years has […] ...
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February 2, 2018

Executive Group Meeting prepares for high-level talks on Sustainable Development

Dorothy Goh, New School

As a graduate student majoring in Environmental Policy, I was given the amazing opportunity to attend the Executive Group Meeting (EGM) held in New York this January. The EGM focused on the importance of interlinkages between sustainable development goals (SDGs) and targets and explore themes for the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) that is to be […] ...
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