August 3, 2020
What We’re Reading: Implementing the Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows (LAFF) in Gunung Tarak Landscape, Indonesia
Amanda Rubio
EcoAgriculture Partners
Report on implementation of the Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows (LAFF) in Gunung Tarak Landscape, Indonesia Dicko Rossanda, Gabija Pamerneckyte, Irene Koesoetjahjo and Bas Louman, Tropenbos International In 2018, Tropenbos International and EcoAgriculture Partners developed the Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows (LAFF) methodology with the aim of supporting collabo ...
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July 27, 2020
What We´re Reading: Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world
Manon Koningstein
EcoAgriculture Partners
Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world: COVID-19 is exposing the fragility of the goals adopted by the United Nations The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depend on two big assumptions: sustained economic growth and globalization. However, the ongoing COVID-19 is demonstrating that our ability to meet the current SDGs is not resilient to […] ...
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April 30, 2020
What We’re Reading: Characterizing and Evaluating Integrated Landscape Initiatives
Amanda Rubio
EcoAgriculture Partners
Manon Koningstein
Characterizing and Evaluating Integrated Landscape Initiatives Carmenta et al. (2020) recently published the article ‘Characterizing and Evaluating Integrated Landscape Initiatives’ (ILIs) which analyzes the 104 tropical landscapes in Latin America that were identified in a paper that came out of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LPFN) initiative for which EcoAgri ...
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February 7, 2020
What We’re Reading: Innovative Ways to Tackle SDGs
Amanda Rubio
Multistakeholder Partnerships and ‘The SDG Effect’ are Coming our Way Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has never had as much urgency or relevance as in our current context. This week we are reading about innovative ways to reach the SDGs with the urgency and attention that it needs. On the one hand is Herman […] ...
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July 12, 2019
What We’re Reading: Foundations Making Big Announcements For The Planet
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
Climate change is a big problem, and big problems require big solutions. With the climate crisis worsening and the loss of biodiversity threatening the stability of life on Earth, there is an indisputable need for coordinated efforts that broadly engage and mobilize the public to improve environmental outcomes. This week, we read about newly announced […] ...
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July 8, 2019
What We’re Reading: Securing a Sustainable Future With Regenerative Agriculture
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
Leveraging the mitigation potential of agriculture is integral to the fight against climate change, and necessary to secure a safe, sustainable future without carbon pollution. Tackling the climate crisis requires concerted strategies implemented at the local, regional, national, and global scale. By pulling carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in the ground, regenera ...
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June 14, 2019
What We’re Reading: Seeding a Sustainable Future
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
Global food security cannot happen without sustainable food production, and sustainable food production heavily depends on the seed security of the world’s farming community. As the repository of the genetic potential of crop species and their varieties, seeds are the foundation of agriculture. With climate change threatening food production, sustainable seed systems that ens ...
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June 7, 2019
What We’re Reading: World Food Safety Day
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
Investing in sustainable food systems is vital to ensuring the safety of our food. Today is the first-ever UN World Food Safety Day, a day that aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe. Food is a sustainer of life, and with an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne diseases […] ...
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May 6, 2019
What We’re Reading: Indigenous Knowledge, Local Resilience and Sustainable Sharing
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
As climate change intensifies, the value of indigenous knowledge cannot be overstated. For indigenous communities, resilience is rooted in traditional knowledge, as their capacity to adapt to a changing environment is based on an in-depth understanding of the land they inhabit. In the face of increasing climate instability, the practices that have sustained indigenous landscape ...
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April 26, 2019
What We’re Reading: Moving climate change beyond politics
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
As the global temperature rises, our climate is becoming increasingly unpredictable. Considering the impact this has and will continue to have on livelihoods and life-supporting systems, we can’t wait for the politics to change to begin taking action. Extreme weather events. Changes in microclimates. Increased coastal flooding. A loss of biodiversity. All of these point [&hel ...
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