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What is LandPKS? A free modular mobile phone app connected to cloud-based storage, global databases, and models A system for storing and accessing user data A system for sharing data, information and knowledge What are the modules? LandInfo– for rapid soil (texture, color) characterization, soil identification, and accessing soil and ecological site…

Jonathan Bloom helped create an amazing (and free!) toolkit to do just that–the Food Matters Action Kit!. The fun, fact-filled resource is brimming with diverse activities, lessons, and games to help teachers and youth leaders bring the topic of wasted food to life. Food Matters covers food waste prevention, redistribution, and recycling. And there’s something in there for young people of all…

The community built a machine learning driven visualization app that matches land conflict events taken from news articles with mediating policies. This enables policy makers to make data-driven decisions and resolve land conflicts faster, save resources, and facilitate environmental sustainability efforts. The AI challenge focused on India as a country struggling heavily with land disputes.

The story we tell about pandemics casts us as victims of nature. It’s the other way around. But what if we, the humans, are the ones staging the onslaught? What if the real story of modern pandemics is not about how animals and their germs are invading our human realm but about how we’re invading theirs? That’s the argument of Sonia Shah, author of the 2017 book Pandemic. She says…

Greenhouse gas emissions are down and air quality has gone up, as governments react to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, has cautioned against viewing this as a boon for the environment. In this First Person editorial, Ms. Andersen calls instead for a profound, systemic shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people…

In countries whose medical systems are under-resourced, the health crisis could be compounded by a hunger crisis and lost livelihoods unless we act now to help. n this interview, Dominique Burgeon, Director of FAO's Emergency and Resilience Division, explains the particular challenges COVID-19 poses in vulnerable communities already coping with high levels of hunger due to pre-existing crises --…