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Climate change negotiations and agriculture: Where are we going? In many developing countries, evidence and political will converge in agriculture sector.
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.
A recent study identifies sustainable consumption and production practices as key to achieving both environmental and food security targets simulataneously.
Partnerships for Forests, a technical assistance and grant-making program funded by the UK government, has opened its first call for concepts.
Significant progress has been made in recent years on REDD+ under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Today, we have more data about forests than ever before, but we still can’t seem to agree on where, when and why forests are changing around the world.
Land used for palm oil production could be nearly doubled without expanding into protected or high-biodiversity forests, according to a new study.
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals on hunger and poverty will require a 50 percent increase in food production in the next 15 years. In fact, a global food revolution is urgently needed, argues a recent paper by a number of leading scientists working with the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Without […]
Climate change is one of the most powerful forces affecting agricultural landscapes today and will only be more so in the future.
In Indonesia, getting kids to eat healthy foods is a vital step toward overcoming problems of stunting and child mortality.
While tropical forests continued to decline, a remarkable change is happening: tree cover on agricultural land has increased across the globe.