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Originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News When Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office in 2014, he made a commitment to strengthen the rights of local communities over land and forest resources. Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry has since announced that 12.7 million hectares of forestland will be transferred to local communities by 2019. This […]

By Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food security can’t wait and neither can decisive action on climate change FAO reported in its publication “State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015” last June that the number of hungry people has dropped to 12.9%. This […]

The UN-REDD Programme is pleased to announce the launch of the first online version of its succesful REDD+ Academy courses and accompanying Learning Journals, making this valuable knowledge resource available to REDD+ policymakers, practitioners and communities worldwide. The REDD+ Academy was designed to support developing countries to gain the knowledge and capacities needed to deliver […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Kate Evans Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, experts from across the globe give their take on what’s next for REDD+. It’s been a long and rocky road for the climate change mitigation scheme known as REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, […]

By Gabrielle Schittecatte, Youth in Landscapes capacity development co-leader Leaning on the podium in front of the class a little excessively with slick palms, wondering if students, like wild animals, can somehow sense uncertainty and fear. That’s what I remember from the start of the first lecture I gave to a university level class. I […]

The 2014 ‘Youth in Landscapes‘ program, part of the Global Landscape Forum (GLF), aimed to give over 200 youth a platform to express their thoughts and ideas on landscape issues and have these ideas represented equally with other stakeholder groups at the 2014 GLF. A 9-month evaluation report provides extensive and in-depth insight into the […]