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The Climate Q&A…
January 8, 2024
What are some of the challenges people face in accessing potable water in rural parts of Ethiopia? Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the World Health Organization, 43% of the population does not have access to an improved water source. Ethiopia is in the Horn of Africa region, which […]
A community’s effort to educate its children
January 5, 2024
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4, which focuses on inclusive and equitable quality education, is a challenge, as approximately 57 million primary school-aged children remain out of school, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Among them were 35 kindergarten-aged children in Essonkrom, Ghana, until their parents and other community members, with support from the U.S. Department […]
How can regenerative grazing for dairy production provide wins for cows, farmers and climate change?
January 3, 2024
By Jonathan Winsten Jon Winsten is an agricultural and environmental economist at Winrock International. Jon works at the interface of agriculture and the environment, focused on climate change and water quality. He pioneered some of the outcome-based incentive mechanisms that help farmers find the most cost-effective strategies to reduce impact on water quality and climate […]
Winrock’s top stories of 2023
January 2, 2024
Wallace Center report details impact of USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program
December 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program was created to connect local farmers, and particularly what the agency deems “socially disadvantaged” producers, with underserved communities experiencing food insecurity. Approximately 13%of the U.S. population is food insecure. Food insecurity and other challenges (including limited access to capital and land) are compounded for Black, Indigenous, People […]
Winrock joins new Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership Announced at COP28
December 20, 2023
This news release was originally issued Dec. 8, 2023 on jtapartnership.org. DUBAI — The formation of a new Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership, JTAP, was announced today at COP28. The initial group of partner organizations, Conservation International, Climate Law and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Winrock International’s Ecosystem Services Unit, are actively seeking […]
Winrock joins consortium to help mobilize finance to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
December 8, 2023
Winrock has joined a consortium led by Ricardo that will deliver the UK Technical Assistance Programme for LEAF, aimed at helping governments mobilize finance for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: a major global driver of climate change. Ricardo, a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company, is leading the consortium, which will deliver […]
Op-ed: Return climate politics to the art of the possible
December 7, 2023
On November 30, 2023 – ahead of COP28 in Dubai, Mary Grady (ACR Executive Director) published the following op-ed in Marketwatch. Politics has been called the art of the possible. Yet, when it comes to climate change, this adage is flipped on its head – the art of the impossible. As the world prepares for the […]
Winrock’s Senior Technical Director for Climate featured in Inside Climate News
December 4, 2023
Winrock International’s Senior Technical Director for Climate Molly Hellmuth is featured in an article published in Inside Climate News about the recent release of the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment. Hellmuth served as the lead author of the international chapter of the NCA5, a Congressionally mandated assessment that is published once every four years. The […]
Innovative carbon finance strategy pays for active forest conservation
December 1, 2023
This story was originally published on acrcarbon.org A new methodology released today by ACR at Winrock International offers an innovative avenue to conserve and enhance forestlands in the United States. Every year, the U.S. loses nearly three million acres (1.2 million hectares) of forest to other land uses, negatively affecting wildlife and water quality and […]