Sustainability

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.

Global Canopy Programme’s Forest 500 initiative concludes that more action is needed to help companies achieve deforestation-free supply chains.

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

With change in the EU-Mediterranean landscape, can the forestry and environmental sector be an opportunity and a tool of employment and knowledge?

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

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.

On 2 November 2016 the European project WaterInnEU, coordinated by CREAF, will organize its 1st Marketplace E-Pitch Event.

Focus and features of CLGD 2016. Climate Law and Governance Day is a related event with the Global Landscapes Forum 2016.

What do you know about landscapes? Test your knowledge of landscapes, the 'landscape approach' and the Global Landscapes Forum.