Nepali farmer Bhoj Raj Paudel had just left home to visit his parents when a hill above it collapsed, destroying his ranch and a paddy field and flooding a swathe of land downstream. The landslide was 19 years ago, but he remembers it vividly. “I am happy my family survived but whatever I owned was
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During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Convention of Parties, the global Solution Search contest named Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Center as the Judge’s Choice winner and Ethiopia’s Apis Agribusiness as the People’s Choice winner. Read the full article: Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Center and Ethiopia’s Apis Agribusiness Named Winners in Global Solution Search Contest
With organic honey business model geared toward Ethiopian youth, Solution Search winner Apis Agribusiness creates a new generation of sustainable beekeepers Read the full article
When almost 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 to address global climate change, the real work was just beginning. At this month’s UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, negotiators made critical progress towards addressing the source of up to nearly a third of globe-warming emissions: agriculture. Read the full article
The initiative “PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet” presented its vision and function in a side event at COP23 in Bonn, Germany with more than 90 attendees and launched a new thematic community on “Agriculture and Biodiversity”. The global partnership initiative features an innovative knowledge sharing approach in nature conservation and sustainable development linking
As the world’s population continues to grow, the demand for increased amounts of food strains our soil and the ecosystems juxtaposed to agricultural sites. International NGO, Rare, and its partners have just announced the launch of a global competition, Solution Search. The contest is open to any organization that has an innovative solution in sustainable
Contest identifies, rewards and spotlights leading approaches that make farming friendlier to people and the planet. (June 9, 2017, Arlington, Va) – Solution Search, a global contest designed to identify, reward and spotlight innovative approaches to conservation, has released the list of its 10 finalists for the 2017 “Farming for Biodiversity” contest. This year’s theme
Monday, 22 May 2017, marks the International Day of Biological Diversity. This could be an occasion for painting a bleak picture: The current rate of global diversity loss is estimated to be a 1000 times higher than the extinction that would occur naturally. Read full article
Solution Search Contest Seeks Entrants with Biodiversity-Friendly Farming Practices This year, Solution Search is on the hunt for the world’s most promising approaches in biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Solution Search: Farming for Biodiversity is now open for entries, after launching its fourth contest in December at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s Conference of Parties in Cancun, Mexico.
In an effort to connect critical links between needs, opportunity and action, international organizations are coming together to identify opportunities to increase agricultural production while protecting natural resources with the launch of Solution Search. This global crowd-sourcing competition, launched today, is designed to spotlight the most promising approaches to conservation and development challenges. This year’s