Agricultural challenges are meeting their match
WLE 2018-19 Research Highlights
Play the Sustainable Agriculture Match Game to try your hand at matching 10 agriculture challenges with 10 real-life solutions realized through WLE support.
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WLE is a global research-for-development program connecting partners to deliver agriculture solutions
that enhance natural resources – and the lives of people who rely on them
Highlights
Act now to feed 10 billion, global experts tell WLE Commission at EAT Forum
WLE and EAT prepare the launch of the global Commission on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture
Can the world produce 10 billion healthy diets while transitioning agriculture from a source of degradation to one of restoration? Experts give insight at the EAT Food Forum on how best to take on this question, as WLE and EAT prepare the launch of the global Commission on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture.
Business models from the edge: Finding the green in sunshine, soil and sludge
WLE business models profiled for World Environment Day and EAT Forum
As this month marks World Environment Day, global food system experts are gathering at the Stockholm EAT Food Forum, searching for solutions on how to better manage our food systems and natural resources. Some of the best solutions will involve science, government, and business working together through cutting edge business models. WLE presented these innovative solar irrigation, soil data and wealth-from-waste business models at EAT 2018. Join WLE at this year’s EAT, as we prepare for the launch of a major Commission.
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Climate and Food Security Monitoring Bulletin, July - August 2019.
International Water Management Institute; United Nations World Food Programme. 2019. Climate & Food Security Monitoring Bulletin July - August 2019. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). 6p.Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa
Cuthbert, Mark O.; Taylor, Richard G.; Favreau, Guillaume; Todd, Martin C.; Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Villholth, Karen G.; MacDonald, Alan M.; Scanlon, Bridget R.; Kotchoni, D. O. Valerie; Vouillamoz, Jean-Michel; Lawson, Fabrice M. A.; Adjomayi, Philippe Armand; Kashaigili, Japhet; Seddon, David; Sorensen, James P. R.; Ebrahim, Girma Yimer; Owor, Michael; Nyenje, Philip M.; Nazoumou, Yahaya; Goni, Ibrahim; Ousmane, Boukari Issoufou; Sibanda, Tenant; Ascott, Matthew J.; Macdonald, David M. J.; Agyekum, William; Koussoubé, Youssouf; Wanke, Heike; Kim, Hyungjun; Wada, Yoshihide; Lo, Min-Hui; Oki, Taikan; Kukuric, Neno. 2019. Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature. 572, pages230–234Knowing the Salween river: resource politics of a contested transboundary river.
Middleton, C.; Lamb, V.(Eds.). 2019. Knowing the Salween river: resource politics of a contested transboundary river. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Springer.
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