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A private enterprise in São Paulo is demonstrating the viability of large scale organic farming and agroforestry, including on land with highly degraded soils. They’re employing a combination of interventions, sequenced smartly, that are yielding winning results.

A Q&A with Marco Albani, Director of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 Today there’s about $500 billion of forestry commodities produced every year. About $200 billion of those are in tropical rainforest countries. So transforming those commodities to deforestation-free commodities is actually a big transformation. There’s a role for the private sector in that. Why […]

As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of […]

By Paola Agostini and Werner Kornexl. Originally published by the World Bank’s Voices blog. Vibrant landscapes are not just beautiful to look at, they are productive and resilient. They provide the natural resources and ecosystem services that underpin economic activities like agriculture, mining, and energy, and are thus vital to national economies and the jobs […]

By Justin Adams. Originally published by TNC’s Global Solutions blog. “A geo-engineering solution, but without any of the risk.” That’s how Jeff Seabright, Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Officer, described nature’s role in carbon mitigation at the Business & Climate Summit 2016 in London. We all know meeting the world’s new commitment to limit global warming below […]

CIFOR, with several partners, published an exhaustive review of the integrated landscapes approach analyzing almost 17,000 publications (read that one again – 17,000!). Read an overview of their findings here.