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By Camila Rossi (Agroicone) and Mariana Campos (Climate Policy Initiative). In 2012, Brazil revised a key instrument of its environmental legislation – the Forest Code. When implemented, the Forest Code has the potential to enable Brazil to optimize the use of its vast territory, safeguarding areas for the conservation of native vegetation and agricultural use […]

Budiman Minasny, University of Sydney Last year, fires burned 2 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, creating an acrid haze that affected several neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. As nations met in Paris late last year to agree a deal to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, the huge carbon pool stored in the peatlands was going […]

By Jessica Musengezi. Originally published as Measuring Conservation Impact on Human Well-being in Kenya’s Rangelands by Cool Green Science. Conservationists spend a lot of time talking about monitoring the impacts of our work. Historically, we’ve done a great job of monitoring ecological outcomes, but unfortunately the same is not true for measuring human well-being outcomes. As […]

By Lindsey Hethcote and Alexander Wankel (Pachakuti Foods). Originally published as ‘The Aynoka Landscape of Peru, where communities are protecting quinoa diversity‘ by Landscapes for People, Food and Nature. Before it was on the shelves of Whole Foods, quinoa was being abandoned in most parts of the Andes as an unwanted “food of the poor.” However, the […]

By Tim Gieseke, author of EcoCommerce 101 – Adding an Ecological Dimension to the Economy. It has taken a long time to admit it, but after two decades farming and sustainability projects, I realized landscape sustainability is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem. It has evolved into a so-called wicked problem of […]

By Meghna Krishnadas. Originally published by Yale Environment Review. Increasing intensity of human land-use makes ecological communities progressively more similar to one another, leading to an overall loss of diversity. Ecological metrics used to quantify diversity loss could provide helpful conservation benchmarks. How does one estimate biological diversity? Answering this seemingly simple question has occupied […]