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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

Gold panning bucket
Farmland

Supportive Government Policies for Territorial Development Help Achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals

A new report highlights how governments could pursue territorial approaches to help their countries achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, through supportive government policies.

11 June 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

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

Governments Must Support Landscape and Seascape Partnerships or Risk Missing Sustainable Development Goals, New Report Finds

The Public Policy to Support Landscape and Seascape Partnerships highlights that governments must support these partnerships or risk missing local SDG targets.

20 February 2023

By Ava Eucker

Cabbage crops in Phu Thap Buek in Phetchabun, Thailand

2022: A Year of Advancing Landscape Thinking and Action

EcoAgriculture Partners accomplished so much this year, yet a great deal of work still needs to be done towards advancing landscape thinking and action.

23 December 2022

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.

Aerial view of lush farmland in Banten, Indonesia with vibrant greenery and water

Solving Global Sustainability Challenges Requires Policy Support for Landscape Partnerships

Landscape partnerships need policy support and can advance policy goals, landscape-scale biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development.

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.

Greenhouse in Sierra Gorda

A Landscape By Any Other Name

ILM: Different Names, Same Goals: Landscape restoration, Agricultural landscape mosaic, Agroecology, Biodiverse agricultural landscape, Climate-smart agricultural landscape

4 January 2022

By Sara Scherr

Hilly Landscape, with varied crops

Natural Climate Solutions in Landscapes Help Communities Mitigate Impacts, Expert Panel Says

During a roundtable on Connecting Natural Climate Solutions with Integrated Landscape Management, panelists laid out their foundational work on NCS.

2 November 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

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.

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