JUST ANNOUNCED: 2017 NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER for the Ecology and Environment Category! 50 trees are planted for each book sold! Drawing on fifteen years of humanitarian work with communities on the verge of collapse, John Leary conveys how restoring agricultural lands with a diverse combination of trees and crops is the answer to reversing desertification, water scarcity, hunger, poverty, climate change and forced migration. ONE Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival provides a compelling look at the state of the world’s agriculture and its evolving impact on people and the environment. ONE Shot takes readers on an evolving journey from the peanut fields of Africa to the corn fields of America; connecting seven of the world’s most pressing challenges to farming practices, and offering the revival of forest gardens as a core agricultural solution.
Award winning author, United Nations advisor, and global authority on agroforestry, John Leary, takes on mission to help solve UK hospitality industry sustainability crisis.
We all know that sustainable practise is now a major requirement for businesses in every industry (with social value following hard on its heels).
We know that communities in the global south have been the first to experience the devastating effects of climate change, with warmer and drier conditions leaving much of the land nearly impossible to farm. John Leary will discuss how his organization Mother Trees is bringing together the best practices in agro-forestry and agri-business in a system called Lifetree Agroforestry.
rom the start, John Leary ’00 was perhaps an unlikely candidate to envision global reforestation. When he brought home pictures of trees he’d colored at school, his mother discovered he was colorblind. The trunks were green, the branches and leaves brown.
28 February 2019, New York, United States – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office hosted a workshop with the Maryland-based organization Trees for the Future on the topics of establishing forest gardens
A group working with African farmers has figured out how to improve the low success rate of tree-planting programs.
My life was forever changed by a simple question from a University of Maryland student on Earth Day 2017, the night of my book launch. After hearing me enact my best passages and proselytize the evils of food systems, a young woman simply asked, “John, where do you get your food?”
For those of you still trying to figure out New Year’s Resolutions, I want to offer something I found particularly helpful in 2017: the Eco Challenge.
Urgent issues require clear, proven solutions. Join agroforestry expert John Leary as he discusses five tangible steps to achieving long-term, sustainable farmland and landscape restoration.
During this Breakout Session, you will have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions of John Leary’s Plenary Talk: “Top 5 Restoration Guidelines for Practitioners”
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