The fourth Global Landscape Forum brought together people from 95 countries to build solutions to climate change challenges through sustainable land use.
Study shows that when policymakers take shortcuts, the likelihood for under-performance of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes is greater.
Designing sustainable landscape initiatives so that they can channel investment is the subject of a new practical website, Financing Sustainable Landscapes.
The world’s nations met at Marrakesh in 2016 to map out implementation of the Paris Agreement. The implications for Southeast Asia’s forests were discussed.
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 […]
Application-focused book with the findings of international research on sustainable land management presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The International Potato Center (CIP) led by World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Maria Andrade officially launched the global Climate Resilience through Sweetpotato (CReSP) initiative. The goal of CReSP is to fully utilize the potential of sweetpotato for improving nutrition security and livelihoods of vulnerable populations in the face of climate change. CReSP was launched on […]
The 2016 Global Landscapes Forum has just closed with an announcement that Germany will host the Forum in Bonn as of next year. Here is what our co-coordinator, Natalia Cisneros had to say in her closing plenary address (video will be available soon). “Dinesh is a young Nepali agriculturalist. He’s developed an online mentoring program […]
Peter Holmgren of CIFOR says: if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and meet our climate targets, we have to find a new way of doing things
New varieties of high-quality, drought-resistant forage grasses could boost milk production by 40 percent and generate millions of dollars in economic benefits for struggling East African dairy farmers, according to a new analysis by experts at CIAT. “Farmers could benefit more from surging consumer demand for livestock products in East Africa,” said Dr. Steven Prager, a senior […]
