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Regenerative agriculture improves the soil, traps carbon emissions and lifts farmers out of poverty. 80% of Kenya’s smallholder farmers are women, which is why Hand in Hand’s regenerative agriculture curriculum places women at its core. The organisation aims to reach one in 20 Kenyan farmers in the next five years. An estimated 140 million people in Africa are facing acute food insecurity[1…

The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year. The last three years were objectively hot, numbering among the warmest since records began in 1880. But the scorch factor of recent years was actually tempered by a climate pattern that slightly cools the globe, “La Niña.” This year and next, La Niña might give way to its hotter counterpart, El…

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…