In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the Romans ever done for us?” Monty Python’s famous skit from the movie “The Life of Brian” illuminates the fact […]
International development is rife with buzzwords. New concepts spring to the fore — many of them refashioned or remarketed versions of old concepts. They flood panel discussions, procurement orders and program design documents — that is, until the next “big thing” emerges to take their place. Will “landscapes” be that next trendy development fad? […]
PABRE, Burkina Faso—A simple fence that protects against grazing livestock and bush fires is all it’s taken to transform three hectares on Bertin Doamba’s farm in central Burkina Faso from denuded and degraded land into a bio-diverse little dryland forest. The enclosure, which Doamba and his family established in 2009 with the support of […]
] Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held in London on June 10. There was a sense that momentum is growing to connect the flows of available capital with the needs of local communities, […]
In his keynote address to the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London, James Cameron, Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute and an investor in sustainable farming in Tanzania himself, said the facts – “reason” – were not enough to achieve transformative change in land use. Language that resonates with all stakholders – “love” – […]
Peter Wheeler, Executive Vice President of The Nature Conservancy, moderated the opening session of the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London on June 10, 2015 with Leslie L. Durschinger, Managing Director of Terra Global, Mark Burrows, Vice Chairman for Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, Bernard Giraud who moved from Danone to become President […]
A former vice-president at Groupe Danone, Bernard Giraud now heads Livelihoods Venture, an organisation that manages investment funds on behalf of corporations intent on making their supply chains more sustainable – all the way to the farm level.
Helena Viñes Fiestas, head of sustainability research at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, talks about the steps her bank is taking to investigate sourcing and land use practices in its portfolio.
James Cameron, chairman of the Overseas Development Institute, says his experience in both the investment and social and environmental development sectors has taught him that you cannot success in one without the other.
CIFOR’s director for forests and governance research, Steven Lawry, speaks on the side of the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London. He says corporate leaders have got the message that social and environmental degradation threatens their bottom line – yet much work remains to be done.
David Pitt-Watson is Executive Fellow at the London Business School and Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative. After chairing the closing session of the Global Landscapes Forum on investment in London, he says there is now potential for finance to play its essential role and take money from where it is to where it is […]
Andy White is Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, an umbrella group of 14 non-profit organisations promoting forest and land use policy reform. Speaking from the Global Landscapes Forum on investment, he says settings such as the Interlaken Group now allow NGOs to engage directly with the private sector.
Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference.
In this presentation, Cora van Oosten (CDI) introduces the landscape approach. Main topics are: – Novel approaches to regional development and food security – A detailed overview of the landscape approach – Major challenges for implementing a landscape approach By Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen UR.
Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held in London on June 10.
