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Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main...
Video
2021
Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for various policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the...
Brazil
Case study
2021
This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, indigenous peoples’ governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and indigenous languages. While enhancing the learning on Indigenous Peoples' food systems,...
Book
2021
Part one of the series on "Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet" of Soil Food Web School explores some of the many benefits that regenerating soils can have on the rest of the planet and on humans in a dialogue between Dan Kittredge, Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Didi Pershouse, Dr. Elaine...
Event
2022
Nixtamalization was invented by Mesoamerican indigenous peoples. This technique is responsible for increasing the nutritional value of corn by transforming it into a dough. The products made from this dough become excellent sources of calcium, a mineral that the body needs to form and maintain strong bones.
This video shows the...
Mexico
Video
2022
A redesign of food systems is urgently needed to simultaneously achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability. Agroecology is gaining prominence as an approach to achieving this radical shift. Evidence demonstrates how agroecological approaches can contribute to sustainable, resilient agricultural and food systems today and in the future.
However, despite many locally...
Project
2021
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