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IUCN’s GFCCP has launched a call for abstracts on “Achieving deforestation-free commitments through forest landscape restoration.”
The restoration of degraded landscapes is an opportunity to increase the global resource base for more sustainable future production of food and commodities
Because of the way international negotiations have separated adaptation from mitigation, two different communities of practices have emerged.
Mangroves are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and, have an impressive capacity to sequester and store carbon at high rates.
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.
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.
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
Integrated landscape approaches have received support from across sectors in recent years as a means to more sustainably manage land use within landscapes.
Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.
“Tenure-secure” indigenous lands generate billions of dollars’ worth of benefits in the form of carbon sequestration, reduced pollution, and clean water.
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