Blog for People, Food and Nature

Facilitated by the International Land Coalition, a new initiative called the Land Portal is providing an interface in which to aggregate land information and facilitate collaboration. While still in its infancy, the tool is expected to contribute to monitoring and filling information gaps in order to improve land gove…

By Lloyd Timberlake Lloyd Timberlake is a freelance writer The “Green Revolution” never took off in Africa, for many, many reasons. One is that Africa contains so many different and varied agricultural ecosystems and in so many of these it is hard to grow the big international staples such as wheat, corn, rice, an…

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) has deemed this academic year the "Year of Agriculture," in recognition of the major challenges facing a growing global population and an increasingly resource-constrained planet. SAISPHERE, the annual flagship publication releas…

A Recipe for Conservation Agriculture   By Jimmiel Mandima, Program Director of Policy African Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC, USA Situated in the Middle Zambezi Valley, Siavonga District in southern Zambia now houses a population of approximately 72,000 subsistence farmers and fishers, many having been displace…

Modern food systems have been very successful at producing vast amounts of food to feed our growing world. However, this has come at a high cost. Many waterways have become depleted or greatly polluted. An expansive amount of natural habitat has been lost or fragmented due to conversion to agriculture. And this loss an…

The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is not only striving to develop a knowledge base through the Global Review process outlined on Monday, but it also aims to turn that knowledge into action and scale-up activities and policies already in place. One strategy for accomplishing this objective is to targ…