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The GLF team caught up with a multi-stakeholder initiative during a week of intensive co-design workshops after the GLF: Peatlands Matter.

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

The Marketplace directly supports innovations from across Europe that have been previously funded by the EU, but still need to achieve market adoption.

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

Photo by Cathy Watson/ICRAF Ethiopia is suffering from severe drought. But there is water in Gergera. Twenty years of restoring its hills and valley has brought life back to this area in the state of Tigray. The work has been painstaking, complex and multidimensional, and continues to this day. But its hard-won results offer up […]

Energy sprawl could result in impacts to 20% of the remaining natural lands in the world, posing a major threat to global biodiversity.

Solution Search, a global contest designed to identify, reward and spotlight innovative approaches to conservation.

Approximately 70% of Africa’s population depends on its agriculture-based economy for their livelihoods, underscoring the importance of soil to the sector.

Improved cocoa farming methods can boost yields and reduce negative effects on the environment.

The 2015 El Nino event in Indonesia triggered what some have called “the worst environmental disaster of the 21st century.”

Dense, damp and often remote, tropical peatlands are notoriously difficult to map and monitor on the ground. So how about from space?

If current farming patterns continue, the future looks increasingly bleak for tropical forests.

Forests, fields, wetlands and other terrestrial ecosystems are major carbon stores, and they could absorb enormous additional amounts of carbon dioxide.

Scientists hope that if the media can help publicize their research on mitigating climate change and balancing livelihoods on degraded peatlands.

The total amount of degraded forest and other productive land in the world today is an area roughly the size of South America.