agriculture Archives

Hand holding pile of raw white coffee beans

Narratives from the Campoalegre watershed, where opportunity is scarce

Feature / Rural communities in Colombia's Campoalegre watershed struggle to meet basic needs. SEI researchers aim to connect them to policymakers to improve their lives.

21 March 2022 / About Business, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster risk, Food and agriculture, Land use, Participation, Public policy, Sanitation, Water resources and Wellbeing

Soybean plantation sprouting and Amazon forest with permanent protected area in the background. Soybean farm in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Q&A: Introducing the Commodity Footprints dashboard

Feature / The tool's creators explain how the free interactive dashboard can be used to visualize data on the global environmental impacts of consumption and production.

21 March 2022 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Supply chains and Sustainable Development Goals

Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective

Journal article / This article reviews black carbon emissions from crop residue burning in the Punjab in India and analyses social-ecological processes driving residue burning.

10 March 2022 / About Food and agriculture and Short lived climate pollutants

Carbon exchange in rainfed and irrigated cropland in the Brazilian Cerrado

Journal article / This study measures the carbon exchange of two fields in the Brazilian Cerrado (irrigated and rainfed) with rotations from different cultures.

8 March 2022 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Land use

Women planting rice in rice paddy, Palacode, Tamil Nadu, India

International Women’s Day: Challenging power and moving towards a gender equal future

Perspective / SEI Asia researchers interviewed three regional partners on women’s experiences with climate change and addressing inequalities.

8 March 2022 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster risk and Participation

Child outside latrine in Montero, Bolivia

Combining sewered and non-sewered sanitation in Montero, Bolivia: scaling up sustainably

SEI report / Additional solutions, capacity development and strengthening of governance systems are needed to allow for increased sustainability of the city's sanitation.

1 March 2022 / About Cities, Food and agriculture, Participation and Sanitation

Animal welfare matters for sustainable development

Perspective / Animal welfare matters for sustainable development. The UN Environmental Assembly should recognize this link.

26 February 2022 / About Food and agriculture

Man in fluorescent yellow T-shirt stands beneath palm trees on a Colombian hillside, backed by lush rolling hills and a mostly cloudy sky

Addressing climate change equitably requires a better understanding of policy coherence

Perspective / SEI US Associate Scientist Zoha Shawoo outlines why countries must strengthen policy coherence when implementing climate goals.

22 February 2022 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Business, Climate policy, Mitigation, Public policy, Renewables and Sustainable Development Goals

Aerial panorama over green summer farm fields crops pasture

A comprehensive approach to nitrogen in the UK

Other publication / This report commissioned by WWF-UK identifies nitrogen losses to the environment and their impacts, and identifies key interventions and approaches.

8 February 2022 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Forests, Mitigation, Pollution and Sustainable Development Goals