Blog for People, Food and Nature

For the past few weeks we've been following organizations working in agriculture on the way to Rio+20. Last week, the blog highlighted the CGIAR Consortium's one stop shop for anything related to the research institutions and their activities in the lead-up to the UNCSD conference. And other organizations are produci…

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 Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services,  produced by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)…

Challenges of food security, poverty, climate change, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss have risen to the top of the African development agenda. To address these issues, African leaders are seeking to move beyond zero-sum strategies that solve one problem but exacerbate others. The Inaugural Summit for Sustai…

Global climate change is expected to increase temperatures, strain water resources, and exacerbate extreme weather events, threatening food supplies and putting those least able to cope at risk. The United Nations World Food Programme has developed a Hunger and Vulnerability Index to assist policy and decision makers t…

The UNCSD Rio+20 presents an unparalleled opportunity to further the goals of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative - as poverty alleviation, food security, and environmental protection are all key themes of the meeting. With Rio+20 less than a month away, we are seeing many organizations expand their …

Conservation agriculture has been promoted as a means to increase water and nutrient efficiencies in semi-arid regions of African, through a suite of practices such as cover-cropping and no-till agriculture. However, adoption of conservation agriculture on the continent has been low. A recent article in the journal Fie…