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Making land use more sustainable is likely to cost money. The challenge for sustainable landscape initiatives is to create financial mechanisms which can redirect the many billions of dollars flowing into less-than-sustainable land use in tropical regions. Designing sustainable landscape initiatives so that they can channel investment is the subject of a new practical website, […]

By Rob Finlayson. Originally published on ICRAF’s Agrofrestry World blog. The Paris Agreement is a global deal aimed at limiting the negative impact of climate change. The implications for Southeast Asia’s forests were explained to senior officials of member states at an Experts Dialogue on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in ASEAN held in Bali, Indonesia, […]

In its third set of annual results, the Global Canopy Programme’s Forest 500 initiative concludes that more government and financial institution action is needed to help companies achieve deforestation-free supply chains Press Release, 5th December, 2016, Oxford, UK: The Global Canopy Programme’s ‘Forest 500’ released its 2016 results analysing the deforestation policies of the most […]

Illegal logging is causing massive economic damage to developing countries, and organized crime networks are increasingly involved in the lucrative plunder of the planet’s forests By Tim Christophersen When you shop at your local mall for furniture, or paper, have you ever considered whether these wood products come from legal sources? A recent report by […]

Application-focused book with the findings of international research on sustainable land management presented at the global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, twelve million hectares of fertile, arable land is lost each and every year. Soils are suffering from aridization, salination and overuse. This means that the loss […]

By Vivian Atakos and Simon Heck from International Potato Center. 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 […]