Resources

What Farmers Need to Survive a Changing Climate: Transformative Adaptation

  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • low carbon development
Growing millet in India
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • low carbon development
Insights

How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
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Monster Avocados and Bread Beer: 12 Technologies Fighting Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
Garbage bins
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
Insights

Q&A: How a Cuban Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
Black bean soup
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
Insights

How Cocoa Farming Can Preserve Forests and Peace in Colombia

  • Forests
  • Business
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • low carbon development
Cocoa farmer
  • Forests
  • Business
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • low carbon development
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Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
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By the Numbers: The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Recycled bread rolls
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Insights

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2017

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Andrew Steer
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Insights

2030 Champions Brings Together Business and Government to Cut US Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Bald Eagle at Tomoka Landfill
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Insights

How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Insights

What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.

  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Food worth $750 billion is lost or wasted every year. Photo by Garry Knight/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Insights

Globalizing Sustainable Development

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • Food
  • poverty
  • health
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Today’s challenges go beyond health, food, and education. Photo by Gates Foundation/Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • Food
  • poverty
  • health
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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WRI’s Top Outcomes of 2013

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • water risk
WRI measures its success through positive, on-the-ground change. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • water risk

Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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The Great Balancing Act: 3 Needs for a Sustainable Food Future

  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Gender
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
  • world resources report
  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Gender
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
  • world resources report
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Food and Fuel: 2 Grand Challenges Facing Us this Earth Day

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater
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4 Grand Challenges to Energy, Food, and Water

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • food security
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • food security
  • natural resources
  • low carbon development
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset