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    Food Business Freshwater Insights
    Food
    Insights
    February 13, 2024

    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
    Business
    Insights
    August 6, 2020

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    January 5, 2020

    Collective Action at the Crossroads: What to Watch in 2020

    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    renewable energy
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    Freshwater
    Insights
    November 25, 2019

    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
    Food
    Insights
    September 23, 2019

    Is the World on Track to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half by 2030?

    • Food
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Too much food spoils or is thrown out rather than eaten.
    • Food
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    June 4, 2019

    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
    Forests
    Insights
    March 5, 2019

    The Data Revolution Hasn't Yet Hit Agriculture

    • data
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Forests
    Farmer harvests wheat in Mojo, Ethiopia. Photo by Peter Lowe/CIMMYT
    • data
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Forests
    Food
    Insights
    February 14, 2019

    How Restaurants Can Cut Food Waste on Valentine’s Day – and Every Day

    • Business
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Mexican restaurant
    • Business
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    Latin America
    Insights
    July 17, 2018

    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
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    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
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    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
    Food
    Insights
    June 12, 2017

    Don’t Put Vegetables in the Corner: Q&A with Behavioral Science Researcher Linda Bacon

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Business
    • Food
    bowl of risotto
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Business
    • Food
    Finance
    Insights
    January 11, 2017

    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
    Food
    Insights
    November 17, 2016

    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
    Food
    Insights
    April 26, 2016

    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
    Food
    Insights
    April 20, 2016

    Sustainable Diets: What You Need to Know in 12 Charts

    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • food security
    • Freshwater
    grocery store
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • food security
    • Freshwater
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 14, 2016

    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
    Africa
    Insights
    July 28, 2015

    How Ethiopia Went from Famine Crisis to Green Revolution

    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • poverty
    Ethiopia is now greener than it has been in the last 145 years. Photo by Chris Reij/WRI
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • poverty
    Food
    Insights
    April 28, 2015

    “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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