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A worker harvesting coffee cherries, which are ripe red fruits of the coffee plant

Celebrating Mexico’s Sierra Gorda Alliance and All 2021 Equator Prize Winners

EcoAgriculture Partners celebrates Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (Sierra Gorda Alliance) as one of the UN Development Programme’s Equator Prize winners and applauds their well-deserved recognition.

31 August 2021

By Juan Ramos

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

Developing Technologies Can Revolutionize Sustainable Landscape Management

There is a need for sustainable landscape development technology to align with real-world needs, to be practical and context-specific.

Cabbages and other crops on a hilly landscape near a village

Healthy Farms, Healthy Wildlife–A New Era for Partnership?

Science has shown that farming can be more productive and resilient in the long term when ecosystems are healthy. People working in agriculture are also seeing the value in healthy wildlife populations.

Varied crops grown besides a river

Laudes Foundation Pledges $370,000 To Bring Integrated Landscape Management To Communities

The contribution of Laudes to 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People will help bring Integrated Landscape Management to local communities.

23 June 2021

By EcoAgriculture Partners

Mountains, town and farming land

Towards solutions for landscape restoration finance at scale: raising ambitions for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Rainforest Alliance and EcoAgriculture Partners hosted a high-level panel for the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, exploring landscape restoration finance strategies.

14 June 2021

By Juan Ramos

EcoAgriculture Partners and 1000 Landscapes in the Galapagos

Strengthening Landscape Partnerships: A “game-changing” solution for food system transformation?

The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is calling for bold and inclusive actions to create a more sustainable and equitable food system for people and nature

16 April 2021

By Juan Ramos

Hilly Landscape, with varied crops

What kind of support systems do Landscape Partnerships need?

EcoAgriculture Partners, the GALLOP initiative, Columbia University and Cornell University jointly convened a virtual workshop on Institutionalizing Support systems for Integrated Landscape Management.

15 April 2021

By Sara Scherr, Juan Ramos

Women pulling weeds, one has a baby sleeping on her back

Champion Landscape Partnerships as a ‘game-changing’ solution for the UN Food Systems Summit and submit your ideas by February 8th!

EcoAgriculture Partners president and CEO Sara Scherr is a member of the Advisory Board for the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Action Track 3: Nature Positive Production.

7 February 2021

By Juan Ramos

Zebras grazing in Tanzania

Participant Follow-up from the African Landscapes Dialogue 2019 

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

A bee on a flower in an orchard

Update on 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People initiative, June-December 2020

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

23 December 2020

By Sara Scherr

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

Celebrating the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LPFN) initiative, 2011-2020

On October 8th we celebrated the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LPFN) initiative, which is wrapping up after nearly 10 years.

3 December 2020

By Tom Derr, Sara Scherr

MesoAmerican woman inspecting chillies on a bush

New reports out: Gender and Integrated Landscape Management in MesoAmerica; and MultiStakeholder Platforms for Sustainable Landscapes in MesoAmerica

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.

22 September 2020

By EcoAgriculture Partners