Farming

Farming

The restoration of degraded landscapes is an opportunity to increase the global resource base for more sustainable future production of food and commodities

Farming for Biodiversity, seeks entries that showcase innovative solutions in sustainable farming, while promoting behaviors that strengthen biodiversity.

The fourth Global Landscape Forum brought together people from 95 countries to build solutions to climate change challenges through sustainable land use.

Designing sustainable landscape initiatives so that they can channel investment is the subject of a new practical website, Financing Sustainable Landscapes.

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

While the importance of carbon stored by forests is widely recognized, carbon stored by trees on agricultural land has been much ignored.

Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.

Pe Ligit* has witnessed massive changes in her lifetime, as waves of migration, logging and oil palm development have transformed Indonesian Borneo.

In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing

The Congo Basin rainforest is one of the most important forests in the world boasting some 10,000 animal species and more than 600 species of trees.

The Paris Agreement has now been ratified by the largest emitters, China and the United States, as well as one of the largest forest emitters, Brazil.

Short course offered on “Competing claims on natural resources - reconciling agricultural development and biodiversity conservation at the landscape level”.