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From Nov. 6-18th, thousands of people watched world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, deliberate at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Over the course of two intensive weeks, 35,000 of the world’s government leaders, funders, civil society organizations and r…

Standing atop one of Mexico’s Sierra Gorda peaks, you can see lush green-covered mountains stretched from one horizon to the other. The sound of rushing water falling over rocks and into natural lakes rises all around. This beautiful mountainous region in the north-central state of Querétaro, the Sierra Gorda Biosph…

Global leaders and experts are now meeting at the UN climate convention’s COP27. Their mission: to discuss how to accelerate global climate action through reducing emissions, expanding adaptation efforts and mobilizing finance to get critical projects going. EcoAgriculture Partners is at the center of these discussio…

There’s a major problem in the pursuit for a more sustainable world. Those advocating for more sustainable agriculture, development or land use are addressing global challenges one by one, despite their strong interconnections. Through this incomplete view, policy solutions focus on individual sectors, such as waters…

Voluntary carbon markets fail to maximize the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions they could offset. A new article published in the journal Science argues that most of the trade in credits to counterbalance climate change-inducing carbon dioxide (CO2) focus on forestry, which only allows for capturing the potent GHG in tree…

The world's overlapping challenges of food insecurity, natural resource degradation, climate change and poverty highlight an urgent need for policymakers and international organizations to respond with collaborative and innovative solutions. With competing environmental and agricultural interests at the heart of many o…