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A Transformed Food System: Unearthing Regenerative Values

November 21, 2023

Global food systems are broken. Let’s begin there. We produce enough food to feed ten billion, and yet we have at least 120 million people going hungry while another two billion people are overweight. The discordance of these statistics are jarring enough without taking into account that food systems are responsible for nearly one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions and are a driving force behind biodiversity loss due to pesticide and chemical fertilizer runoffs. To help address these issues, on November 15 the Center for Earth Ethics partnered with the World Resource Institute, EIT Food, NOW Partners, the Future Economy

Financing Restoration: The Africa Climate Summit Through the Eyes of a Youth Climate Champion

October 25, 2023

Michael Kakande, a youth climate advocate who lives in Kampala, Uganda, is a passionate certified climate reality leader and climate-induced migration expert, mobilizing youth to lead on nature and climate. He is the founder and chairperson of the Resilient 40 (R40), an African youth partnership toward climate resilience on the African continent. When we met for our conversation, he had recently returned from the Africa Climate Summit (ACS), which he described as a finance summit. The ACS took place last month, gathering 17 heads of African nations alongside leaders in finance, energy, tech and agriculture along with members of civil

Nurturing Food Systems: Understanding Agroecology and AI-Driven Farming

September 27, 2023

As we navigate the complex landscape of our food systems, we must balance food security and environmental preservation. Conventional farming has made our food systems into what they are today. It relies upon genetically modified organisms (GMO) seeds that are, by design, predisposed to the chemical cocktails of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers sprayed on them. The combination of these seeds and these chemicals – both of which are manufactured by the same, small group of businesses – has filled grocery shelves around the world with foods once foreign and unimaginable, and has helped stem hunger and malnutrition globally. But conventional

The Time is Now: African Climate Summit

September 6, 2023

The African Climate Summit (ACS) is underway in Nairobi, Kenya. The African continent, with its 1.2 billion people, is weighed down by debt to countries and multilateral development banks, primarily in the Global North. The debt disallows positive investment in climate mitigation and adaptation measures. Despite the near negligible contributions of African nations to the climate crisis, they are indeed some of the most impacted peoples. Of the 20 countries most impacted by climate change, 17 are in Africa. Nearly 600 million Africans lack access to electricity and of those 600 million, 72 million youth in Africa — the majority