Industrial timber plantations could provide a way for Ethiopia to reduce rural unemployment and conserve natural forests. Work on a timber plantation in Ethiopia is tough, with low wages, poor conditions and little security – but at least it’s a living. And in a country with high demand for wood products and widespread rural poverty […]
Wageningen University, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Agroforestry Centre have designed a 2-week course on landscape management. Towards innovative arrangements for inclusive decision making at landscape level, is the title of the international course for forest and nature management professionals. Scholarships are available for applicants before 20 October 2015. Where: Bogor, […]
Moving beyond “zombie statistics”: land restoration and gender issues CGIAR has pledged in its latest Strategic and Results Framework (2016-2030) to contribute to the restoration of 190 million ha of degraded land. About 3.6 billion hectares were degraded over the 1982-2006 period. Land degradation occurred in both tropical and temperate regions and in rich and […]
New York – A year ago, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it didn’t lay out a plan for how to get there. The agreement – to cut deforestation in half by 2020, and eliminate it entirely by 2030 – was signed by 30 national […]
Ségolène Royal is Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and is confirmed as high-level speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum.
Land restoration is a key theme at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), the biggest side-event of the climate change negotiations in Paris in December. The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is hosting a discussion on the role agroforestry can play in restoring landscapes. The following is an interview with session organizer Henry Neufeldt, Head […]
Paula Caballero, a World Bank director and speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, congratulates the inclusion of a focus on the world’s ocean in the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals: At this week’s UN Sustainable Development Summit, the world’s oceans will be getting the attention they have long deserved — but not always received. They […]
Open letter to the heads of state attending the 70th UN General Assembly, September 2015, New York Co-advancement of Agricultural and Natural Resource Management within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The 17 global goals which you have supported the creation of are an unrivalled span of human aspiration covering everything from sharing prosperity, to […]
For the first time, the Association of International Research and Development Centres (AIRCA), is an implementing partner of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF). Formation of AIRCA in 2012 was stimulated by the need for integrated action to deliver sustainable agricultural intensification at a landscape scale. AIRCA is a nine-member alliance of international research and development […]
Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi of Uganda received the 2015 Wangari Maathai ‘Forest Champions’ Award. Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi was awarded the 2015 Wangari Maathai ‘Forest Champions’ Award in recognition of her efforts to promote the conservation and sustainable use of her country’s forest resources. Given in recognition of outstanding efforts to improve and sustain […]
Researchers outline the current state of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa. Agriculture plays a key role in the economic development of West African countries. By directly providing employment and income to about 70% of the population, agriculture is the engine of West African economies. It is also the backbone of food security for rural and […]
Despite a decline in numbers in the last few decades, nearly 800 million people around the world still don’t have enough food to eat. About 2 billion people are not getting enough of at least one kind of micronutrient, which are essential for good health. Many food-insecure people live in the world’s tropical regions, some […]
In London on 10 June 2015, a variety of representatives of the finance community rubbed shoulders with anthropologists, foresters, NGOs and government representatives at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case. The event was part of a growing multistakeholder movement that seeks to harness the influence of the financial sector to transform rural landscapes. As […]
The Indian tale about the blind men and the elephant is well known. The poet John Godfrey Saxe told it like this: It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), that each by observation, might satisfy his mind. Each of […]
It’s the season for bountiful corn harvests. We consume corn in so many forms — for some, it constitutes a major part of a meal; for others, it provides fuel for an end of summer road trip. That’s right, the same starchy grain that nourishes us fuels our cars. How so? In the U.S., corn […]
