Following the Global Landscapes Forum on 16-17 November 2013 on the sidelines of the UNFCCC COP19, many session organizers produced a summary statement of the discussion and messages coming out of their session.
What does a “landscapes approach” mean to the private sector? For Bernard Giraud, Senior Sustainability Adviser at Danone, it is not merely an additional aspect of doing business, but “part of the business model” itself. “Danone bottles its water from natural water sources,” Giraud said. “So the quality of water depends on the watershed management. […]
Focusing on carbon alone not enough to tackle emissions, deforestation: development expert WARSAW, Poland (20 November 2013) — Indonesia’s mission to cut carbon emissions through avoided deforestation can offer lessons to the rest of the world, a top official in the country’s development unit said — not least because focusing on carbon alone often falls […]
Lesotho prince: ‘Evidence at hand points at a landscapes approach as being the renewed opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change’ WARSAW, Poland (19 November 2013) — Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso has declared the need for all-inclusive climate solutions as a matter of “urgency” for his “suffering” nation. Speaking recently to agricultural and […]
Kalibata details country’s hard road to fixing farms, forests and boosting livelihoods WARSAW, Poland (21 November 2013) — Rwanda has made major strides in repairing degraded lands and restoring agricultural productivity, correcting “huge mistakes” in land management that were made in the past, the country’s top agricultural official said. Africa’s most densely populated country is […]
During the Global Landscapes Forum, reporters from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) attended many sessions and discussions, producing a final report featuring photos, videos and summary articles. “The first Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) convened on Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 November 2013, at the University of Warsaw in Poland, on the sidelines […]
The task of influencing policy is a complex one, as policy makers always have to listen to a number of stakeholders. In the context of climate change, these stakeholders include scientists and communities; the farmers and women who are who are living with the impacts of the changing climate. All the scientists here at the […]
What type of land management practices occur in your country or in your region of the world? Are they simple and decentralized, or complex and heavily regulated? How do other factors such as climate change, biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management affect agricultural practices in your local sector? The Global Landscape Forum (GLF) focuses on an integrated strategy of […]
We think we know three truths about gender in development, says Dr. Seema Aror Jonsson, from the Swedish University of Agricultural Scientists: women are the poorest of the poor; women are more prone to die in natural disasters; women are more environmentally conscious. But have we been deceived? People love to include statistics on the […]
The Global Landscapes Forum, taking place alongside the COP19 global climate talks in Warsaw, is an opportunity for us to look for meaningful answers to the question of our time: How can we nutritiously and sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050, while not contributing to climate change? We need an integrated and inclusive approach […]
*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** ‘Fragmentation is our enemy’: Why we must work together across landscapes WARSAW, Poland (17 November 2013) — Global experts made an impassioned plea to change the way the world is tackling food insecurity, climate change, poverty and water scarcity — and warned that UN climate negotiators in Warsaw risked […]
In part thanks to its considerable contribution to deforestation, agriculture accounts for an estimated 30% of greenhouse gas emissions according to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Such statistics may make agriculture and forestry seem like unlikely partners. Yet agriculture and forestry can also be leveraged in a way that […]
Landscapes must provide food, water, carbon storage, biodiversity protection and rural development stimulation – and they must do it all in one go. If I were a landscape, I’d worry about my stress level. Perhaps it is time to call in a shrink? We are asking a lot of our landscapes at the Global Landscape […]
Joseph is a Kenyan farmer, and he is harvesting his crop in cyberspace. Joseph is taking the lead in growing a fraternity of people interested in agriculture through Facebook. Mkulima Young – “Young Farmer” in Swahili- the page he set up in January this year, has now gained 23,789 likes and continues to grow. Almost […]
“Many consider conservation as a matter of only the biological sciences. I say rubbish – it’s political.” Thus, an hour into the first round of technical sessions, panelist Edmund Barrow of the IUCN framed the entire context surrounding the 2013 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Warsaw, Poland. Also in Warsaw, in a move described as […]
