Researchers point out that it's time for the conversation on the WEF nexus to be channeled into effective researcher-practitioner partnerships, for actual implementation and real benefits.
A comprehensive approach to monitoring soil health, implemented by ICRAF with support from WLE, combines physical and chemical analyses with above-ground indicators like tree and shrub biodiversity. Its application across vast landscapes is transforming rehabilitation efforts worldwide.
Around the world farmers have been buoyed by CGIAR-supported innovations that tap into natural cycles to achieve a more robust, sustainable cycle of production and supply
A study from Karnataka shows how decades of agricultural and forestry choices upset an ancient balance, turning a district of 3,000 tanks into a district of 30,000 boreholes.
Post-drought dynamics of plant communities show potential trigger of a vicious-cycle of more intense droughts and increasing global vulnerability of forests.
Southeast Asia's ancient practice of fish and rice 'co-culture' can play an important role in greening economies, expanding nutrition security and building community resilience.
These lessons will help avoid the "one-size-fits" pitfall in achieving a sustainable agricultural transformation agenda at the national level, and at the grass-root level in making meaningful recommendations to farmers for better yields.
The city of Nairobi's informal economy has been severely affected by Covid-19. A series of case studies conducted by the Mazingira Institute supported by WLE, showed the different ways in which some of these impacts occurred.
A study conducted in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, where a significant portion of them were women, showed that landless and marginal farmers gained from collectives individually - and as a whole.
Challenges to water resources and nutrition security require new approaches, and a recent online workshop brought together communities from the two closely intertwined sectors to discuss the key linkages and identify a sustainable way forward.
