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Public Policy

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

Community meeting organized by the Mata Atlântica Model Forest in Quilombo de Pinhões on November 9 2024
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

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

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

Biodiverse Landscape

Every Sector has a Role to Play in Conserving Biodiversity. EcoAgriculture Partners will Continue to Convene Influential Initiatives at COP 15.

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and National Biodiversity Finance Plans development will consider all sector roles in conserving biodiversity.

Dry cracked earth

COP 27 Outcomes Highlight Need for Expanding Resources to Help Landscape Leaders Scale Climate Action

EcoAgriculture Partners participated alongside global partners to share tools and resources supporting locally-led, nature-based and landscape approaches to scale climate action and resilience.

23 November 2022

By EcoAgriculture Partners

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

A woman holds fresh tomatoes and radishes

Landscapes In the United Nations Food Systems Summit: An EcoAg Update on Solutions, National Pathways and Next Steps for the Landscape Community

The landscape community is encouraged to review and reflect on the wide range of solutions and opportunities that have emerged from the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS).

21 September 2021

By Sara Scherr, Juan Ramos

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.