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Agriculture in Africa appears to be the first to be hit by climate change this century, with production projected to drop dramatically across the Continent. In a technical session during Day1 of the GLF, IFPRI presented findings from each of three new research monographs to shed light on the future of African landscapes: the good, […]

We still lack a systematic understanding of how all different elements impact each other, how they compete for resources and how they can share resources. We also lack a systematic understanding of how policies and practices designed to benefit one element might impact another, and whether those impacts are bad or good. And we lack […]

There is an oft cited fact that migration as a result of climate change could figure anywhere between 150 million to 2 billion. What you don’t hear in the media quite so often is the fact that there will be as much internal migration within a country, as there will be external. This puts enormous […]

Joseph Otim was just two years old when the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency began in Uganda. Military groups were engaged in extensive deforestation and there was widespread lumbering to produce income-generating charcoal.  Forests and local landscapes had become yet another casualty of the conflict. Once the war was over however, a new struggle had […]

Agriculture may have been overlooked at the recent UN climate talks in Warsaw, but the world’s farmers are not ready to stand down. Drawing on the momentum built at the Global Landscapes Forum and the unity with which the agriculture community now speaks – attention could now shift to another UN process that could allow […]

During the Global Landscapes Forum, reporters from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) attended many sessions and discussions, producing a final report featuring photos, videos and summary articles. “The first Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) convened on Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 November 2013, at the University of Warsaw in Poland, on the sidelines […]