Author: Eric Warner, Strategic Partnerships Lead

Eric builds relationships with grant funders to develop projects around our work restoring forests with smallholder farmers. Previously, he has helped build brands for major Canadian music festivals and worked with Montreal-based sustainability not-for-profits. Eric sees the potential of a sustainable economy and its impacts, as he holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a dual focus in marketing & sustainability from Concordia University.

Equitable benefit sharing: Understanding forms of value for communities

In a previous blog , we discussed the concept of equitable benefit sharing, or how the…

The importance of equity for successful benefit sharing in reforestation

As the carbon market explodes in value, many are starting to wonder: who is benefitting? From…

How durability in forest carbon forces us to think about livelihoods

How do you ensure a forest stays in the ground? This is the central question of…

From local to national impact: Communitree 2021 year in review

2021 was another fantastic year for the CommuniTree program. With the carbon market officially surpassing $1…

An untapped opportunity for reforestation

How does coffee connect to forests? As one of the world’s largest commodities, coffee grows on…

An inside look into one of the local minds behind CommuniTree

Last month, we interviewed Elsa Gonzalez, the COO of Taking Root’s CommuniTree program in Nicaragua. We…

New Taking Root project to reduce carbon footprint of coffee farms

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology…

Reforestation–a farmer’s perspective

A day in the life Taking Root has made some pretty big announcements in the past…

Biochar: the next carbon gamechanger

Taking Root is incredibly excited to announce the launch of biochar trials to enhance reforestation with…

Update: The impacts of Hurricane Eta & Iota

Last month, devastating impacts swept Central America as not one, but two extreme hurricanes hit the…