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A 10-Step Plan for the World to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half By 2030

  • Food
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Food Loss and Waste
Food loss can happen on the farm as well as in the kitchen. Photo: ImpaKPro/istockphoto.com
  • Food
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Food Loss and Waste
Research
Women holding woven baskets with fresh vegetables and fruit
Insights

10 Breakthrough Technologies Can Help Feed the World Without Destroying It

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
food lab
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Insights

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
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3 Steps for Tackling Food Loss and Waste

  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
Wasted vegetables and fruits of a hypermarket from one or two days.
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
Insights

“Revaluing” Ecosystems to Include Nature’s Value on Balance Sheets

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • Business
  • natural resources
While oceans support lucrative fisheries, these benefits are rarely accounted for in ledgers. Photo by Pedro Ramirez Jr./U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • Business
  • natural resources
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Making Economic Valuation Count for Coastal Ecosystems in the Caribbean

  • Freshwater
  • coral reefs
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
People and economies across the Caribbean are dependent on coastal ecosystems—including coral reefs, mangroves, and beaches. These ecosystems provide critical habitat to commercial fisheries, attract tourists from around the world, and protect coastal communities and infrastructure. Photo Credit: Katina Rogers
  • Freshwater
  • coral reefs
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
Insights

7 Stories to Watch in 2014

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • fossil fuels
  • deforestation
  • Air Quality
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy
As host of the 2014 World Cup, all eyes will be on Brazil's cities to see how they deal with their sustainability challenges and opportunities. Photo credit: Crystal Davis, WRI
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • fossil fuels
  • deforestation
  • Air Quality
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy
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How Much Are Ecosystems Really Worth?

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
Women in Indonesia's teak forest harvest ground nuts. Photo credit: Murdani Usman, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
Initiatives

Food Loss & Waste Protocol

Tea harvest in India
Research

Belize's Coastal Capital