Our water footprints have gone global. The drivers include modern agribusiness and the unprecedented reach of value chains. Those living where rain falls or rivers flow may give little thought to the water demands of their lifestyles. Others do not have that privilege. Worldwide, people’s water uses…

Advances in Bioenergy is a new book series that provides both principles and recent developments in bioenergy technologies, including feedstock development, conversion technologies, energy and economics, and environmental analysis

"When we talk to investors," explain Sofia Faruqi and Andrew Wu from WRI, "one of their first questions is, 'How do we make money in restoration?'" A new infographic reveals the financial opportunities, the major revenue streams from restored land.

2016 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Insecurity – Investing in a Zero Hunger Generation – the first post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report of its kind. The report outlines declining progress towards defeating hunger in Asia and the Pacific, noting that nearly one-in-three…

Agriculture and rural development (ARD) are key to addressing the root causes of migration. By 2050, over half of the population in the least developed countries will still live in rural areas. Three-quarters of the extreme poor base their livelihoods on agriculture or other rural activities. In…

The increase in the number of conflicts, their complexity, their protracted nature, the accelerated environmental degradation and increasing impacts of climate change worldwide results in a growing number of people forcibly displaced or migrating under distress than ever before.

Wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) are currently the fastest-growing sources of electricity globally. A "next generation" phase of deployment is emerging, in which wind and solar PV are technologically mature and economically affordable. The success of variable renewable energy (VRE) is also bringing…