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4 Sustainable Ocean Strategies that Yield Economic Benefits

  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Restoring mangroves in Thailand
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Insights

8 Ways to Rebuild a Stronger Ocean Economy After COVID-19

  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • food security
  • Ocean
A fishing boat on a dock.
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • food security
  • Ocean
Insights

Water Could Limit Our Ability to Feed the World. These 9 Graphics Explain Why

  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Conventional sprinkler irrigation
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Insights

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

5 Ways to Put Food on a Water Diet

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • water risk
African woman watering garden
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • water risk
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
Insights

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

WRI’s Top Outcomes of 2014

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
During "Raaghiri Days" in Indian cities, streets are closed to cars to encourage walking and biking. Photo by Carol Mitchell/Flickr
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
Insights

High Water Stress Jeopardizes One-Third of World’s Corn Crop

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Food
  • food security
  • water risk
Water limits to corn production are likely to be exacerbated as climate change alters global precipitation patterns. Photo Credit: Jane/Flickr
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Food
  • food security
  • water risk
Insights

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

One-Quarter of World’s Agriculture Grows in Highly Water-Stressed Areas

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • water risk
New WRI analysis shows that 57 percent of the world's cotton is grown in water-stressed areas. Photo credit: Stephen Morton, Flickr
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • water risk
Data

Dataset: Agricultural Exposure to Water Stress

  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • commodities
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • commodities
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Aqueduct
Initiatives

Food Loss & Waste Protocol

Tea harvest in India
Insights

5 Sobering Realities about Global Water Security

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Food
  • food security
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Food
  • food security
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk