Farms

CCAFS researchers and University of Michigan students are exploring Brazilian cattle ranchers’ participation in the Sustainable Agriculture Network’s Rainforest Alliance Certification. Toninho pointed to a large tree as he approached the farm saying, “This tree was a sapling when I was a boy.” Every year, he takes a picture with this relic of his childhood […]

Over the past couple of weeks, acknowledging and embracing multiple objectives related to food, environment, and social wellbeing has surfaced as a common theme from our Roundtable authors in discussing the intensification of agricultural systems, and particularly as an impetus for adopting a landscape perspective. So too did this important theme stand out in a […]

People in the industrialized world reap the benefits of a well-connected and seamlessly functioning network of weather stations. Instant accessibility to real-time weather information guides society’s day-to-day decision making – from what clothes to wear, how to get to and from destinations, to what crops to plant. It’s difficult to imagine a world where a weekend weather […]

The risk of drought is high as climate changes. But agriculture can become resilient, say senior researchers from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in a special Nature Outlook. Agriculture will be faced with alarming challenges under a changing climate, with many parts of the world facing more severe […]

Farming provides services outside of crop production, it can aid in carbon capture among other ecological side benefits. These ecosystem services could be a boon to farmers if there were a feasible means to provide compensation for them. This blog provides an analysis of how a landscape level approach can be used to enhance any […]

Suriname is a small country in South America that has managed to preserve much of its native biodiversity and rainforest habitats. The blog examines how Suriname can both maintain its wilderness and intensify agricultural production through a landscape approach. This is made possible by the global market’s recently expanded interest in organic products and those […]