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Build better carbon markets to tackle climate change. A conversation with leading scientist and EcoAg Board Member Ruth Defries
An article published in the journal Science asserts that voluntary carbon markets, trading in credits to counterbalance climate change-inducing carbon dioxide, fail to maximize the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions they could offset.
11 October 2022
By EcoAgriculture Partners
Equator Prize 2021: Local Leaders Ignite Global Change
This year's Equator Prize winners show that local solutions can help solve global problems. The awards ceremony recognizing local and Indigenous communities worldwide.
4 October 2021
By EcoAgriculture Partners
EcoAgriculture Partners congratulates the ten winners of the Equator Prize 2020
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.
5 October 2020
By EcoAgriculture Partners
The contribution of Integrated Landscape Management to the post-2020 Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity: Recommendations for policymakers from the African Landscapes Dialogue in Arusha.
3 March 2020
By John Ajjugo, John Kamanga, Sam Kanyamibwa, Sara Scherr
Empowering regional and district level planners to address climate change threats to agriculture
Collaborative planning, including grassroots-level stakeholders, to address climate change threats to agriculture, creates a sense of ownership in plan implementation.
28 March 2019
By EcoAgriculture Partners
Responding to EAT-Lancet: Local challenges and solutions need to be in the analysis too
Global perspective provides useful view of problematic trends, but understates local challenges and over-emphasizes top-down solutions.
12 March 2019
By Sara Scherr
Complementing sector policy with integrated territorial and landscape approaches
An impressive group of partners echoed one key message: integrated territorial and landscape approaches are possible, necessary, and overdue.
6 December 2018
By Louis Wertz