Biodiversity is central to food security and should be evaluated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) urges Fabrice DeClerck in a recent Nature correspondence.
A new book, compiled from research done by WorldFish, aims to provide planning tools for policy makers and practitioners to support the sustainable development of dams in the Mekong River basin.
Researchers from ICARDA, IWMI, WLE and the University of East Anglia are warning that large-scale irrigation systems (LSIS) are underperforming, which poses a threat to food production in the developing world.
Under current trends, the demand for food will double over the next half century, and significant improvements are necessary in agricultural water management now to reduce the vulnerability of the world’s poorest people.
The coastal zone of Bangladesh is notorious for its low agricultural productivity and persistent poverty. Water salinity has been perceived as the biggest and most difficult challenge standing in the way for thriving agriculture – but what if that’s not the problem at all?
The 2015 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy was held from Oct. 21-23 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Here's a short video that encapsulates the event.
Food is at the heart of sustainability – changing how we produce, and consume food can radically change both human, and environmental health for the better.
The data revolution offers enormous potential for improving decision-making at every level – from the local farmer to world-spanning development organizations. But gathering data is not enough.
The gender panel at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum held in Paris, alongside COP21, urged that recognizing a woman's right to land is a key stepping stone in paving the way forward for women's rights.
Sunday, December 6 from 13:15 to 14:15: This session aims to broaden the dialogue around the concept of landscape and seascape “multifunctionality” to enable healthy diets derived from landscapes and seascapes that are sustainably managed for multiple outcomes. It is the result of a collaboration by Bioversity International, CIAT, CIFOR and the Stockholm Resilience Center.
A new WLE-supported book on gender and rights-based water governance titled "Water is Life: Women’s human rights in national and local water governance in Eastern and Southern Africa,” has been published. Barbara van Koppen ofWLE/IWMI is one of the authors.
Deep into the talks at the 8th Ecosystem Services Partnership conference held in South Africa’s mega diverse Western Cape, Bioversity International and Natural Capital Project colleagues filled the room with attendees hungry to learn more about MESH, an innovative new tool for mapping ecosystem services.
