Todo el mundo ama los aguacates. Saben muy bien, y son buenos para ti, pero nuestra demanda voraz por ellos, orillan a los agricultores del centro de México a cortar los bosques, lo cual acelera el cambio climático. Es un problema basado en la demanda que requiere soluciones basadas en la demanda, pero eso no […]
Everyone loves avocados. They taste great, and they’re good for you, but our ravenous demand for them is prompting farmers in central Mexico to chop forests, and that accelerates climate change. It’s a demand-driven problem that requires demand-driven solutions, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up the guacamole just yet. Here’s a look at both the challenge and its solutions.
Next week, Forest Trends will join over 200 organizations from around the world in Stockholm for the annual World Water Week (WWW) meetings. This year’s WWW focuses on Water for Sustainable Growth, and it shines a light on an important realization: twentieth-century approaches – more storage, pipes, and treatment plants – are not sufficient for 21st […]
After a decade of international, UN-organized efforts to combat deforestation through finance for forest protection, the million dollar question is whether that finance is reaching the tropical forest countries that need it most. When Forest Trends set out to answer that question for the first time, it found encouraging signs that the $10 billion in […]
Nature and Culture International is establishing Ecuador’s first water school, an institution created to train municipal water workers in the skills required to join and administer a water fund. The water fund model continues to experience success in managing Latin America’s stressed water resources and the school is meant to help scale up its use.
Water utilities and NGOs around the world are using market-based mechanisms to clean regional waterbodies and restore surrounding watersheds, but critics say the programs are unproven. Proponents counter: yes, they are, and the data exists to prove it!
Chefs de toda América Latina están aprovechando la cocina como un vehículo para la producción sostenible de alimentos y la protección de los bosques. Aquí, Will Tucker de Forest Trends explora cómo este pensamiento influyó en un chef que trabaja en la Ciudad de Panamá, llevándolo en un viaje que comenzó con un solo tweet […]
Chefs across Latin America are leveraging cuisine as a vehicle for sustainable food production and forest protection. Here, Forest Trends’ Will Tucker explores how this thinking influenced a chef working in Panama City, taking him on a journey that began with a single tweet and has since led to a program sourcing rainforest ingredients sustainably while empowering communities.
Este estudio de caso aborda la necesidad de una orientación práctica para evaluar el impacto social de los fondos de agua al documentar y reflexionar sobre un proceso de evaluación del impacto social dirigido por Aquafondo, el fondo del agua de Lima, Perú.
Brazil’s SOMAI Alerta Indígena platform helps indigenous territories plan for climate change, but so far it’s only been available in places with reliable internet. A new mobile app could spread the access and make it more responsive – but only if funding materializes. Thanks to Google, that may be about to happen.