The Future of Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Precision Agriculture on Medium- and Small-Scale Farms Precision agriculture (or PA) is the next wave of agricultural innovation. While innovations from the 19th and 20th centuries embodied scientific knowledge in the form of inputs or devices that could be easily used by producers, PA is based on electronic … [Read more...] about The Future of Agriculture
The Business Case for Climate Resilience
How can businesses, large and small, make their supply chains more climate resilient and simultaneously more profitable? Almost any supply chain, but particularly those that are dependent on natural resources, will experience the impacts of a changing climate in all its parts. A recent study by Acclimatise for the IDB’s PROADAPT program, shows that assessing climate change … [Read more...] about The Business Case for Climate Resilience
Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017
Check out our collection of the 10 most popular blogs in 2017. [View the story "Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017" on Storify] … [Read more...] about Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017
Monterrey: Climate-Smart Water Management
“We will reach a point in the next years where we won’t have water for the population, nor for the industries or businesses”. This somber forecast by Alfonso Martinez Muñoz, Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the State of Nuevo León, has propelled a collaboration among a range of stakeholders in the city of Monterrey to come up with solutions to … [Read more...] about Monterrey: Climate-Smart Water Management
Community-based organizations: the first line of defense for project sustainability
Normally when designing operations at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), we analyze the institutional capacity of the executing agency and corresponding national authorities in order to mitigate environmental and social risks. But, is it possible that we’re keeping local authorities and communities –who are the first to feel the impacts and to supervise mitigation … [Read more...] about Community-based organizations: the first line of defense for project sustainability