EcoAg News

African Landscapes Dialogue 2019 was filled with knowledge sharing, discussion, and networking, providing participants with ideas and inspiration when returning to their home countries.

Our organizations, the Lead Partners of 1 Billion People initiative, have been working energetically to refine the 1000L priorities and co-design our strategy.

Although we missed spending time in-person with our partners, it was also a very productive year, and promising in many ways for the future of landscape regeneration.

Once every two years, the Equator Initiative organizes the Equator Prize to honor ten outstanding Indigenous and local groups from across the world who are achieving sustainable development goals.

After the Mesoamerican Landscape Dialogue, two thematic groups, on ‘Gender and Integrated Landscape Management’ and on ‘MultiStakeholder Platforms for Sustainable Landscapes’, published their workshop reports and next steps.

Sara Scherr and Louise Buck on the ability of Integrated Landscape Management to scale Agroforestry through the strategy ofmobilizing collaborative efforts among multi-sector stakeholders.

EcoAgriculture Partners stands in solidarity with those protesting the recent killings of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many others in the US and around the world who have been victims of race-based violence.

We are working to make our new normal a world where resilient food systems support self-sufficient communities in harmony and balance within sustainable landscapes.

The Food System Vision Prize question ‘How might we envision regenerative and nourishing food futures for 2050?’, sparked 1319 organizations to submit their visions for the future of their food systems to the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Bridge Collaborative recently announced this year’s four winners of the Bridge Spark Fund, an effort to support and strengthen integrated solutions for tackling the most pressing global challenges.

Organizations worldwide began working in “radical collaboration” to advance the 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People initiative (1000 Landscapes), joining forces to link currently fragmented regenerative landscape efforts.