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Ecosystems

The Work Behind the Work: Building Resilient Landscapes in Asia

Integrated Landscape Management for building resilient landscapes is becoming a shared practice carried forward through partnerships, strengthening landscapes from Latin America to Asia and now Africa.

6 March 2026

By Paul Wanyoike

Team Photo at ILM Training in Bohol, Philippines
Gold panning bucket

A Golden Opportunity: A Landscape Lens Transforms Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

From the rugged highlands straddling the border of Bolivia and Peru to the vast plateaus of Burkina Faso in West Africa, small-scale artisanal gold mining (ASGM) is happening around the globe

10 July 2024

By Réka Blakemore

This was published in Forbes

From Oil Boom To Sustainability Bloom: Will Guyana Develop Without Sacrificing Ecosystems And Cultures?

Guyana’s highway-building project is quickly approaching a fork. Taking one path could lead to robust and equitable sustainable development that brings along Indigenous and poor rural communities while protecting critical ecosystems.

3 June 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

EcoAgriculture Partners - 20 years of building the landscape movement

We’re are Celebrating 20 Years of Reimagining Peoples Relationship with Nature

Two decades ago, EcoAgriculture Partners set out on a bold mission to help humanity reimagine its relationship with nature through more thoughtful, sustainable agriculture.

8 May 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

EcoAgriculture Partners Joins Forces with UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration for a More Sustainable Future

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, led by the UN Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization and its partners, covers terrestrial and coastal and marine ecosystems.

22 April 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

This was published in Forbes

The Richest Untapped Resources

The Model Forest Network promotes better conservation and production practices for communities living and working in Latin Amercia forests.

Illustration of biodiverse land usage including eco-tourism, farming, agriculture, forestry, fishing

Better Together: Rikolto and EcoAg Collaborate to Improve Food Systems Worldwide

EcoAgriculture Partners is collaborating with global nonprofit Rikolto to deliver a series of training workshops in 16 landscapes worldwide, to improve food systems.

20 March 2024

By Réka Blakemore

Record low Colorado River levels can be seen in exposed layers

The Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry Isn’t the Solution. We Have a Smarter Answer.

The deal to keep the Colorado River from going dry offers only a temporary reprieve rather than an enduring solution, failing to fully address the poor practices that got us here or anticipate future challenges.

7 July 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Navigation of the Mayo river in the Moyobamba jungle of San Martin, Peru

Getting the Climate Project Pipeline Flowing: New Funding to Help EcoAg Build Needed Landscape Finance Tools

Solving challenging global issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss requires collaboration between different sectors and stakeholders.

8 May 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

A bee on a flower in an orchard

Landscape Partnerships Provide Powerful Tools To Help Countries Attain Sustainable Development Goals, Expert Panel Says

To address the world’s crises on climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, nations and international organizations are launching major policy initiatives and landscape partnerships.

Farmer with goats grazing nearby

Sharing landscape finance innovations with Territorial Development leaders in Latin America

Three territorial development networks came together for the XIII International Forum on Territorial Development and the VI International Congress for Rural Development.

10 June 2021

By Juan Ramos

Mountainous landscape in Northern Colombia, near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains

1000 Landscapes Workshop on Transforming the Financial System for Investment in Sustainable Landscapes

A key milestone in the design research of 1000L was a workshop on Transforming the Financial System for Investment in Sustainable Landscapes.

19 November 2020

By Sara Scherr, Daniel Zimmer, Juan Carlos Ramos

Food on display at a food market

How to reimagine our food systems for a post-COVID world – taking a landscape perspective

We reimagine our food systems for a post-COVID world, after the pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities and failures of our food systems.

11 June 2020

By Sara Scherr and Sara Farley