Author: GLF Committee

Adding a gender perspective helps to better understand future challenges of small-scale and community-based forestry. This is one of the major conclusions of the IUFRO 2013 Conference on Future Directions of Small-scale and Community-based Forestry, Fukuoka, Japan. Read the full post here. Photo: Participants at Fukuoka Conference, by Kimihiko Hyakumura

BOGOR, Indonesia (25 October 2013) — A dedicated Global Landscapes Forum to coincide with upcoming international climate change talks in Warsaw will highlight the benefits of taking a holistic approach to land-use management and could give the strategy a key role in efforts to curb global warming, an international climate negotiator has said. Negotiators are […]

Afforestation, in addition to providing wood, makes important contributions to climate change mitigation, to the protection of the environment, crops and animals, and to the provision of food for people. Thus, there was wide agreement among participants of the IUFRO co-sponsored 1st International Symposium on Afforestation of Pastures in Subtropical Regions in Curitiba, Brazil on […]

This year, World Food Day and Blog Action Day fell on October 16th. World Food Day focused on “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”, while Blog Action day narrowed in on the topic of Human Rights. These two themes, in fact, complement each other under the banner of the “right to food.” As […]

Tropical peat swamps are key carbon storing landscapes, but the conversions of peat swamps into plantations of palm oil and Acacia are creating an ever-growing release of greenhouse gases. Peat swamps will continue to play an important part in the discussion about reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Read the full post here. Original […]