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Ruth DeFries – Denning Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s The Earth Institute – speaks about the importance of landscape approach for addressing climate change, at the Global Landscapes Forum, on the sidelines of the UNFCCC talks in Warsaw, 16 November 2013

There is a definite role for agriculture to play in climate change mitigation, but still far too little information on the scale of its potential contribution. This was the overriding message from yesterday’s COP 19 side event Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture: policies, development and mitigation potentials, hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). The […]

What is it about agriculture that the world finds so hard? We eat its products every day, after all. Yet when it comes to adopting sensible policies for ensuring that people get fed, that farmers can make a living, and that agriculture does not contribute unnecessarily to climate change, the world’s diplomats are frankly clueless. […]

“Many consider conservation as a matter of only the biological sciences. I say rubbish – it’s political.” Thus, an hour into the first round of technical sessions, panelist Edmund Barrow of the IUCN framed the entire context surrounding the 2013 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Warsaw, Poland. Also in Warsaw, in a move described as […]

Through the lens of the beautiful Gunung Halimun Salak National Park area in Java – and the lives of those who live there – we explore just what a ‘landscape approach’ means, as a way to reconcile conservation, agriculture, development and industry in a single area, and ensure we feed the earth’s growing population while […]

Ten young agricultural professionals chosen from 150 applicants from 52 countries and a pressing issue: growing the role of youth in agriculture. From Facebook for farming to handbags with a social conscience to rebuilding landscapes in the wake of war, these are only some examples of the boundless imagination of these youth in pioneering successful […]