As humanity looks to nature for answers to climate and development woes, wetlands are often heralded as a green panacea. What is needed is not uncritical adulation, but much greater scientific understanding.
Decision dashboards are poised to bridge the gap between data and policy, with consolidated and accessible information systems enabling evidence-based decision-making.
Improved sanitation is booming, but when the majority of new toilets connect to pits and septic tanks, where does it all go from there? A WLE study offers answers from across India.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the precarious nature of migration – creating new risks and challenges that migrants and rural households must navigate to maintain their incomes and livelihoods.
A pioneering pilot training program in India and Nepal is challenging tradition and helping communities to rethink gender relations in agriculture. Could its approach help to address gender inequalities more broadly?
Researchers point out that it's time for the conversation on the WEF nexus to be channeled into effective researcher-practitioner partnerships, for actual implementation and real benefits.
A comprehensive approach to monitoring soil health, implemented by ICRAF with support from WLE, combines physical and chemical analyses with above-ground indicators like tree and shrub biodiversity. Its application across vast landscapes is transforming rehabilitation efforts worldwide.
Around the world farmers have been buoyed by CGIAR-supported innovations that tap into natural cycles to achieve a more robust, sustainable cycle of production and supply
A study from Karnataka shows how decades of agricultural and forestry choices upset an ancient balance, turning a district of 3,000 tanks into a district of 30,000 boreholes.
Post-drought dynamics of plant communities show potential trigger of a vicious-cycle of more intense droughts and increasing global vulnerability of forests.
Southeast Asia's ancient practice of fish and rice 'co-culture' can play an important role in greening economies, expanding nutrition security and building community resilience.