Author: GLF Committee

MYscape – YOURscape – OURscape: exploring the relationship of landscape and democracy Register now to be part of the Online Seminar on Landscape Democracy 2015. The European Landscape Convention asks its signatory parties “to establish procedures for the participation of the general public, local and regional authorities, and other parties with an interest in the […]

Originally posted by The Nature Conservancy. A first-of-its-kind Global development Risk Assessment identifies the most at-risk regions worldwide for habitat conversion. With the world population predicted to approach nine billion by 2050, global demand for energy, food, minerals and other resources is skyrocketing. The development required to meet these demands is likely to have significant […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News. By John Cannon. Industrial timber plantations could provide a way for Ethiopia to reduce rural unemployment and conserve natural forests. Work on a timber plantation in Ethiopia is tough, with low wages, poor conditions and little security – but at least it’s a living. And in a country with […]

Wageningen University, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Agroforestry Centre have designed a 2-week course on landscape management. Towards innovative arrangements for inclusive decision making at landscape level, is the title of the international course for forest and nature management professionals. Scholarships are available for applicants before 20 October 2015. Where: Bogor, […]

Originally posted on the blog of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) This blog links to a session at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6, December in Paris): This Land is Our Land: Gender perspectives on tenure and rights. Moving beyond “zombie statistics”: land restoration and gender issues CGIAR has pledged […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News blog By Laura Dattaro New York – A year ago, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it didn’t lay out a plan for how to get there. The agreement – to cut deforestation in half by 2020, and eliminate it […]