Author: NourishingthePlanet

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day,...

The trend of international land grabbing–when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries for the purpose of agricultural production and export–can have serious...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. We know that trees can help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere. But what is less widely understood is...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Agricultural production is only the first step in moving the world’s food from farm to fork, according to Nourishing the Planet, a project of the...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. The good news is that in addition to providing food, innovations in sustainable...