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A U.N. report says there is a 40% chance global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years. If this occurred, the world wouldn't be crossing the Paris Climate Accord warming limit - but we would be significantly closer to reaching this threshold. According to the study, every year from 2021 through 2025 is likely…

The world faces a growing food systems crisis. The number of people who go to sleep hungry around the world grew by over 100 million in 2020. Obesity rates are up too, having tripled since 1975. Food supply chains continue to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change — and commodity-driven deforestation remains a problem in many tropical forest-rich countries. At the…

When it comes to nourishing ourselves and the future generations that will inhabit our planet, there’s little room to doubt that on a global scale we’re ‘biting the hand that feeds us.’ Eighty percent of global deforestation and 11 percent of anthropogenic carbon emissions come from agriculture, and conventional farming practices are leading causes of water pollution, biodiversity loss and land…

Land degradation and food insecurity go hand-in-hand across Latin America and the Caribbean. What if we could address both challenges at the same time? Landscape restoration is the process of bringing land and soil back to life. It has the potential to reverse degradation and increase agricultural production at the same time. A recent report by the World Resources Institute, with the…

Restor is a map-based, open-source platform created so that people can better plan, manage and monitor restoration projects. The locations of more than 50,000 restoration and conservation initiatives are now registered on the platform. On the platform, Restor users can view high-resolution satellite imagery of places around the globe to learn about their potential for restoration or…

BOKI DIAWE, Senegal, July 28 (Reuters) - Every night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job - hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden. Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future…