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Structure, Trust, and Shared Direction: Leadership Lessons from Latin America’s Model Forests

Latin America Model Forest Network leaders gathered for the opening workshop of the Forest Leaders for Integrated Landscape Management program

30 May 2026

By Paul Wanyoike

A group of participants at the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil
Community meeting organized by the Mata Atlântica Model Forest in Quilombo de Pinhões on November 9 2024

Backing Forest Leaders: How Small Investments Could Spark Big Change Across Latin America

Beyond projects that forest leaders implemented through small seed investments, the money also got other organizations involved in the landscape to pitch in their support and additional funds.

11 April 2025

By Michael Keller

Greenhouse in Sierra Gorda

Exploring Landscape Management: A Journey of Learning and Growth

Join EcoAg as we explore innovative landscape management practices, empowering communities and ecosystems through shared knowledge and collaboration in 2024.

1 December 2024

By Brianna Van Matre

A group of participants at the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil

EcoAg Seed Grants Boost Landscape Projects Across Latin America

EcoAg Seed Grants are transforming landscapes in Latin America by funding 15 projects that promote sustainability, community leadership, and Integrated Landscape Management.

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

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.

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

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

Global EbA Fund Grant Will Help Landscapes Find Financing for Climate Adaptation

EcoAgriculture Partners will work with Conservation International to improve financial tools to help landscapes secure funding for ecosystem-based climage adaptation (EbA) projects.

13 March 2023

By Brianna Van Matre

Varied crops in a valley

Mexico Launches Unique Declaration Promoting Leadership by Landscape Partnerships and Local Governments to Fight Climate Change, Blunt Biodiversity Loss and Benefit Communities

Climate Action to Recover Mexico’s Natural Heritage: promoting regenerative management actions and solutions.

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.

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

A man holds up saplings from a rural nursery

The African Landscapes Dialogue highlights the central role of Local Landscape Champions

A discussion of Landscape Convening and Governance, the first in a series addressing different thematic discussions that took place during the African Landscapes Dialogue.

3 February 2020

By EcoAgriculture Partners

Agroforestry landscape with trees and crop growing together

Scaling Up Agroforestry Initiatives with Integrated Landscape Management

ILM offers a strategy for scaling up agroforestry by mobilizing collaborative efforts among multi-sector stakeholders, by combining interests and expertise.

18 June 2019

By Eghosa Asemota