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How Cacao Can Do So Much More Than Make Chocolate

  • circular economy
  • Food
  • Business
  • natural resources
Farmers in Ghana prepare cacao for processing
  • circular economy
  • Food
  • Business
  • natural resources
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Biomass Can Fight Climate Change, but Only if You Do it Right

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
A farmer examines an ear of corn with a farming machine behind him.
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
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How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • nature-based solutions
  • conservation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • nature-based solutions
  • conservation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
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Local farmers help restore degraded landscapes in Africa
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • Food
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The World Is Growing More Crops — but Not for Food

  • agriculture
  • Forests
Rice paddies
  • agriculture
  • Forests
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The Ukraine Crisis Threatens a Sustainable Food Future

  • Energy
  • Climate
  • Clean Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy
  • agriculture
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
Harvesting wheat in Ukraine
  • Energy
  • Climate
  • Clean Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy
  • agriculture
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
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5 Takeaways on Cropland Expansion and What It Means for People and the Planet

  • agriculture
  • land use
  • food security
A farmer surveying a soybean crop in Colombia.
  • agriculture
  • land use
  • food security
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Rice farmers in Rwanda
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Climate
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Our Food Systems Need an Overhaul. Here’s How the UN Food Summit Can Help.

  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Resilience
Four farmers harvesting and carrying boxes of strawberries in an open field.
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Resilience

How to Transform Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change

  • Climate
  • Food
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • agriculture
  • COP26
Tea farmer harvesting leaves in Sri Lanka
  • Climate
  • Food
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • agriculture
  • COP26
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4 Urgent Actions Towards a More Sustainable Food System

  • coronavirus
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • restoration
Women plant rice in Tamil Nadu, India.
  • coronavirus
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • restoration

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
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6 Ways the US Can Curb Climate Change and Grow More Food

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
harvesting corn
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
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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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Africa’s Restoration Entrepreneurs Aid in COVID-19 Response

  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • restoration
A man working on a farm.
  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • restoration
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Which Countries Are Most Vulnerable to Locust Swarms?

  • agriculture
  • food security
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • mapping
Insights
no-till planter
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
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After COVID-19: How We Can Improve the Global Food System

  • coronavirus
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
Produce section of grocery store
  • coronavirus
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
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4 Ways Farmers Can Adapt to Climate Change and Generate Income

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • restoration
Farmers working on an integrated system in a farm in Paraiba Valley, Sao Paulo. The system combines crops (a native species similar to potato and corn) with palm trees. Photo by Bruno Calixto/WRI Brasil
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • restoration
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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
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset