Director Sustainable Finance for Bunge, Karla Canavan, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London.
Climate-smart agriculture, including agroforestry and other diversified farming practices, is the future of farming. The world can no longer rely on monocultural, commercial practices to feed the two billion new mouths expected by 2050. While the world is facing a looming food shortage thanks to inadequately preparing for the extra two billion people expected to […]
Climate-smart agriculture, including agroforestry and other diversified farming practices, has huge potential to improve food security and address climate change at the same time. Researchers, policymakers and farmers discuss what should be done to expand such practices and bring greater benefits to more people. The global population is estimated to jump from 7 billion to […]
A Q&A with Pablo Pacheco, CIFOR’s Team Leader for Investments, Value Chains and Finance A lot of private sector investment today – in spite of all the capital – doesn’t seem to always reach smallholders. Any observations? That depends whose sector we’re looking at. I think there’s a large amount of smallholders that don’t have […]
At the second meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2), countries adopted a resolution on illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products calling for urgent action. The resolution called for countries to make illegal wildlife trade involving organized criminal groups, a serious crime. From the perspective of REDD+, this resolution is compatible with the […]
Originally published by the Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) The Dubai-based International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska are co-leading a $4-million research effort. The project is designed to help the […]
Originally posted by IUCN This September, an estimated 10,000 people will converge on the Hawai‘i Convention Center in Honolulu to exchange conservation ideas, discuss pressing issues and learn from one another at the IUCN World Conservation Conference. Forests will be at the top of the agenda for many – and dozens of talks, workshops, and formal presentations […]
A private enterprise in São Paulo is demonstrating the viability of large scale organic farming and agroforestry, including on land with highly degraded soils. They’re employing a combination of interventions, sequenced smartly, that are yielding winning results.
A Q&A with Marco Albani, Director of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 Today there’s about $500 billion of forestry commodities produced every year. About $200 billion of those are in tropical rainforest countries. So transforming those commodities to deforestation-free commodities is actually a big transformation. There’s a role for the private sector in that. Why […]
Once called the Emerald of the Equator, the Indonesian island of Sumatra holds some of the most diverse and unique ecosystems in the world: it houses the last remaining Sumatran tigers, orangutans and elephants, and boasts a cultural diversity that is just as manifold and unique. Despite the island’s critical role, the Sumatran forests are […]
Vibrant landscapes are not just beautiful to look at, they are productive and resilient. They provide the natural resources and ecosystem services that underpin economic activities like agriculture, mining, and energy, and are thus vital to national economies and the jobs and wellbeing of billions of people. However, in many areas across the globe, economic […]
“A geo-engineering solution, but without any of the risk.” That’s how Jeff Seabright, Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Officer, described nature’s role in carbon mitigation at the Business & Climate Summit 2016 in London. We all know meeting the world’s new commitment to limit global warming below 2 degrees C is going to be an uphill climb. […]
CIFOR, with several partners, published an exhaustive review of the integrated landscapes approach analyzing almost 17,000 publications (read that one again – 17,000!). Read an overview of their findings here.
Advisor to the Environment Minister of Morocco, Ayman Cherkaoui, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London. A Q&A with Ayman Cherkaoui, Advisor to the Environment Minister of Morocco How can the private sector engage in tackling climate change? I see it engaging more, […]
Earlier this month, more than 1,000 people gathered for World Environment Day in Samarinda, the capital of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. It was a moment – shared by millions of people all over the world in different ways – of reflection and action on the environment. In the run-up to the event, there had been […]
