El 17 de junio, la ONU arrojó luz sobre el problema mundial de la desertificación y sus consecuencias. Las soluciones se han expuesto bajo el lema "superando juntos las sequías". Este año, el Día Mundial ha sido presidido por España. Fue una buena elección, porque dentro de la UE, es el país que más sufre la desertización. Y con...

"Rising up from drought together" is the theme of this year's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Spain is chosen by the UN as host to draw attention to increasing drought everywhere around the globe and its impacts. Spain is definitely a good choice, because it is the EU-country that is most at risk of becoming a desert. The...

Peter Murage, agronomist and founder of the NGO Mount Kenya Organic Farming (MOOF-Africa), spoke to us about promoting regenerative farming in Kenya in an area of severe soil degradation. His non-profit organisation does research and gives trainings and demonstrations to farmers on how to restore depleted soil and helping them to improve...

Despite extreme poverty, inequality, famine, water shortages, desertification and terrorism, Nigerien farmers have managed to successfully reforest their land. This proves how resilient people are and how much we can get done, if we want to.

This month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the UN has finalized a report on climate change mitigation and adaptation. And the message is clear: We are still in time to turn the tide, and there are now explicit numbers, i.e. the actual monetary cost of carbon capture. Removing a tonne of CO2 (or equivalent) from the air...

From 28/2 till 4/3 leaders from many nations will unite at the fifth United Nationals Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2), to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. Held under the theme "Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals," UNEA 5.2 will focus on marine plastic pollution. Environmental organizations are urging that a...

In this interview with Bill Butterworth, an agriculture scientist and writer from Britain, we learn about how to deal with waste, what the links are with carbon dioxide, and how nature deals with waste. A sustainable future depends on valuing waste as a resource. Yet, humans throw away huge amounts of it. And nothing on Earth can really go...

The annual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (the GFFA) was held on 28 January in Berlin. The topic of this year was "Sustainable Land Use: Food Security Starts with the Soil". 68 ministers of agriculture agreed to follow important recommendations on how to make farming and soil management sustainable, outlined in this communiqué, made by a...

We interviewed founder and inventor Andrew Hayim De Vries, CEO of WastePlant, about his food waste undertakings in Byron Bay, New South Wales. WastePlant is a food garden facility that provides sustainable solutions for food waste problems: they tackle food waste through composting and soil regeneration, provide better access to local and healthy...