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The Legado das Águas – Reserva Votorantim (Water Legacy – Votorantim Reserve) arose because forests would guarantee the protection of the springs.

On behalf of the German Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economic Cooperation, State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth pledges support.

A conversation with Ann Jeannette Glauber, Lead Environment Specialist at the World Bank, during the Global Landscapes Forum thematic event Peatlands Matter

Dilip Ratha is a scholar of international migration and its relationship with global development. This is a recording of his presentation at the Global Landscapes Forum youth session on rural-urban migration held on 16 November, 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco. Dilip talks about his own migration from India to USA and the challenges of sending money […]

Info on eligibility & submissions for the Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research in the fields of gender and women’s and girls’ empowerment.

Christopher Botsford, Chief Executive Officer and joint Chief Investment Officer of ADM Capital, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Managing Director & Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, Mark Burrows, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London. A Q&A with Mark Burrows, Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse Why invest in sustainable landscapes? […]

Head of the Climate and Environment Department at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Andrea Ledward, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London. A Q&A with Andrea Ledward, Head of the Climate and Environment Department at the UK Department for International Development […]

A Q&A with Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Why hold a Global Landscapes Forum? We thought that one of the biggest gaps in the whole development discourse is, how do we find the finance that needs to be invested in fair and equitable ways to achieve all the […]

Dragons’ Den: Pitching new investment opportunities at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London. The forum brought together experts from the financial services industry with leaders from the corporate sector, government and academia to take investments into sustainable landscapes to the next level. This second edition of the […]