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
Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.
An online, interactive map, the Global Wetlands Map, was launched last month that invites researchers and other experts to help map the world’s wetlands.
Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – Just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be focusing on this year. Stockholm — known […]
A recent study identifies sustainable consumption and production practices as key to achieving both environmental and food security targets simulataneously.
Short course offered on “Competing claims on natural resources - reconciling agricultural development and biodiversity conservation at the landscape level”.
