One in nine people worldwide are undernourished, population pressure is increasing, and natural resources are at their breaking point. These challenges are growing faster than we can respond, and the implications are numbing. In many cases, we know what to do. But how do we do it? How do we revitalize our efforts and mount innovative responses equal to our challenges?
Reos Partners has been refining answers to “how” for 30 years, through our engagement in dozens of systemic change initiatives around the world. As we have discovered with the governments, NGOs, and corporations we work with, social breakthroughs in how we work together are every bit as important as the technical breakthroughs that usually consume our attention.
Another kind of breakthrough we see in our food, land, and natural resources initiatives is personal revitalization: transcending the discouragement and sense of isolation that can come from devoting oneself every day to problems of such magnitude and complexity. Multiplied across the membership of a global initiative, this is not a small thing. As a member of our Sustainable Oceans Lab said, “I feel inspired and stretched and less lonely, part of a committed network that is pioneering new approaches in ocean leadership.”
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