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Andrea Meza, Deputy Executive Secretary of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and speaker at Economist Impact’s upcoming Sustainability Week, writes about the need for rapid and drastic transformation within our global food system. Recent crises have brought into sharp focus the globalised nature of our food systems and their fragility. Conflicts, climate…

A NASA-led research team used satellite imagery and artificial intelligence methods to map billions of discrete tree crowns down to a 50-cm scale. The images encompassed a large swath of arid northern Africa, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Allometric equations based on previous tree sampling allowed the researchers to convert imagery into estimates of tree wood, foliage, root size, and carbon…

When it comes to land, gender inequalities are pervasive. Today, nearly half of the global agricultural workforce is female – yet less than one in five landholders worldwide are women 1.   Women’s land rights are essential for their economic empowerment and the sustainable development of rural communities. However, women continue to face significant barriers to accessing and…

Andrea Meza, Deputy Executive Secretary of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and speaker at Economist Impact’s upcoming Sustainability Week, writes about the need for rapid and drastic transformation within our global food system. Food systems can and must be reset to produce more with less, and to replenish rather than squander our natural capital. A just…

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World and the Elsevier Foundation celebrated the 2023 OWSD-EF Awards for Women Scientists, with researchers from Benin, Bolivia, Guatemala, Palestine, Mongolia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The winners' research explores a wide range of ways to combat food insecurity, from crop disease resilience to improved child nutrition, and indigenous…

Devex takes a look at some of the global development organizations and networks helping to advance women’s rights and empowerment.