Category: Food & Livelihoods

Experts hail local knowledge, youth and finance as solutions

New studies show grain production depends on ending deforestation, which could be aided by a soy moratorium in the Cerrado.

Study forecasts survival rates for 18 of Amazonia's main collected plant species and the impact of these extractive resources on communities.

As the COVID-19 pandemic jeopardizes food security, how can we redesign our global food system through resilient supply chains and rapid policy measures?

Three questions with Future Africa director Cheikh Mbow

The Amazon biome is home to up to 30% of the world’s known species. Here’s all you need to know about the world’s most diverse ecosystem.

In Peru, a look inside the Indigenous movement fighting for rights of nature, making ecosystems subjects for state protection.

Enshrined in myth, the dugong supports fishing industries and carbon stocks – through its ferocious herbivore appetite.

New organic certification mechanisms are needed to make their costs worth the benefits to local growers around the world.

It’s not all-or-nothing for organic agriculture. Instead, changing our complex food systems needs a rather a nuanced approach.

Here’s what experts said in two dialogues on the sustainable finance landscape in Africa.

New study links tree loss to rainfall patterns, and potentially damaging effects on the soy and cattle agribusiness sector.

Nudging individual behavior toward sustainability, such as through consumers buying legal wood in Cameroon, is no small change.

The 10 Billion Tree Tsunami could pilot a new financial mechanism – and set an example for other developing countries with forestation goals.

Here's what was discussed at a two-day forum of global leaders and local land-users discussing the restoration of Africa's drylands.