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    food security Insights
    Food
    Insights
    August 11, 2016

    Better Buying Lab Aims to Accelerate Demand for Sustainable Food

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    The River Cafe
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    Insights
    June 29, 2016

    This Independence Day, Think About a Menu Change

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • food security
    Food cooking on BBQ
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    June 6, 2016

    4 Surprising Reasons to Measure and Reduce Food Loss and Waste

    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Recovered food waste
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    May 23, 2016

    Signs of a Growing Movement to Reduce Food Loss and Waste

    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • sustainable development goals
    Food waste
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • sustainable development goals
    Food
    Insights
    April 26, 2016

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

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • 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
    • Water
    grocery store
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • food security
    • Water
    Food
    Insights
    April 20, 2016

    How I Tweaked My Diet to Cut its Environmental Footprint in Half

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • land use
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    Sunday dinner - fried chicken. green beans, tomatoes, and mashed potatoes with mochka gravy.
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • land use
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    April 8, 2016

    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
    Food
    Insights
    January 21, 2016

    Champions Call to Reduce Global Food Loss and Waste

    • agriculture
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Food waste
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Equity
    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
    Food
    Insights
    October 2, 2015

    If Croplands Expand, Where Should They Go?

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    Agricultural expansion can't come at the expense of ecosystems like forests, grasslands and wetlands. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    Africa
    Insights
    July 28, 2015

    How Ethiopia Went from Famine Crisis to Green Revolution

    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • 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
    • Water
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • poverty
    Food
    Africa
    Insights
    July 2, 2015

    Why Africa Needs to Look to Its Cities to End Hunger

    • Cities
    • Food
    • food security
    • Urban Development
    A street market in St. Lucia, South Africa. With the continent rapidly urbanizing, it’s critical that city leaders address urban food loss and waste in order to ensure sustainable development and end food insecurity. Photo by Steve Slater/Flickr.
    • Cities
    • Food
    • food security
    • Urban Development
    Food
    Africa
    Insights
    May 21, 2015

    Regreening Africa Could Help Stem the Tide of Migration

    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • food security
    A smallholder farmer plants maize. Photo by CIMMYT/Flickr
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • food security
    Climate
    Insights
    January 28, 2015

    Why Dedicating Land to Bioenergy Won't Curb Climate Change

    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biodiversity
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security
    A new WRI working paper recommends against dedicating land to produce bioenergy. Photo by Macomb Paynes.
    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biodiversity
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    August 19, 2014

    Food Security and Climate Change in Africa: A Question of Political Will

    • Food
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security
    One-quarter of Africa’s projected food gap can be addressed by supporting a drive to achieve replacement level fertility by 2050. Better food security could be achieved by reducing food loss and waste. Photo Credit: Mark Jordahl/Flickr
    • Food
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security
    Food
    Africa
    Insights
    August 11, 2014

    A Farmer In Africa: Balancing Property Rights With National Needs

    • agriculture
    • food security
    • land rights
    In Africa, farmers rely on their rights to community land, but governments don't always back them up with legislation. (photo credit: Gates Foundation/flickr)
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • land rights
    Food
    Insights
    August 7, 2014

    The Difference One Tree Can Make

    • Forests
    • Equity
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • restoration
    A babao tree in Zimbabwe. Planting hundreds or even millions of trees does not automatically translate into an increase in the overall long-term tree population. Photo Credit: Martin Heigan/Flickr
    • Forests
    • Equity
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • restoration
    Equity
    Insights
    July 28, 2014

    Renewing the Global Commitment to Crop Breeding

    • Food
    • agriculture
    • food security
    A laboratory technician at the International Atomic Energy Agency's Plant Breeding Unit in Seibersdorf, Austria, checks on a phial containing a young banana plant. Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA/Flickr
    • Food
    • agriculture
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    July 22, 2014

    Closing the "Food Gap" Means Renewing the Global Commitment to Crop Breeding

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    A great bulk of global plant breeding research has gone into the major cereals and oilseeds, such as corn, wheat, rice and soybeans. Yet there are many other crops that are particularly important to small farmers and the food insecure, in part because many of these crops can do relatively well in marginal environments. Photo Credit: CIMMYT/Flickr
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security

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