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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

EcoAgriculture Partners - 20 years of building the landscape movement
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

Farmer with goats grazing nearby

Look Beyond the Farm to Solve Global Food System Challenges

Unsustainable production presents many challenges for food systems, but agricultural improvements alone won’t solve global food system challenges.

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.

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

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

A woman holding indigenous fruit

Announcing the 78 Rockefeller Food System Vision-Prize semi-finalists!

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.

31 March 2020

By EcoAgriculture Partners

Farmer checking the health of crops

Responding to EAT-Lancet: There’s no Great Food Transformation without farmers

Initial steps towards a Great Food Transformation are being driven by the creativity and ingenuity of farmers.

15 March 2019

By Sara Scherr

Selection of healthy wholefoods - fruit, vegetables, dairy, grains, oils

Responding to the EAT-Lancet Commission from the Integrated Landscape Perspective

EAT-Lancet Commission’s new report provides the most ambitious synthesis and analysis yet on a critical issue facing humanity in the 21st century

Flags outside the UN HQ

Roundtable Recap: Advancing Integrated Landscape Strategies for the SDGs

Experts explore how integrated landscape strategies can accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

26 October 2017

By Brett Jacobson

Outdoor market

The rough road to market: tracking food flows in Laikipia County, Kenya

A food flow study in Kenya’s Laikipia County reveals how poor roads, market challenges, and seasonal livestock trade affect food security, highlighting opportunities to strengthen local food systems and livelihoods.

18 October 2016

By Krista Heiner

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How food and agriculture are changing in a climate change world

On World Food Day, EcoAgriculture Partners highlights how climate change is reshaping agriculture and why building climate-smart landscapes and local institutional capacity is essential for resilient food systems.

16 October 2016

By Louis Wertz

Sugar cane harvesting in Fiji

Sara Shares: In response to The Economist’s “Feeding the Ten Billion”

Sara Scherr challenges the idea that future food security depends on high-tech agricultural innovations alone, arguing that restoring ecosystems and sustainable farming practices are equally essential.

27 June 2016

By Sara Scherr