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I am Mmakgabo Confidance Mapotse. I was born and raised in the dusty, rural province of Limpopo in the Republic of South Africa. Currently, I am pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biotechnology and Botany at the University of Limpopo, and my university study, coupled with my enthusiasm to innovate, have sparked my interest […]

Food security is not only the amount of food we eat, but also the level of nutrition it provides. We are what we eat – and agriculture can play a crucial role in making the food we eat more nutritious and us, in turn, a healthier population. When coordinated with efforts from other sectors, such […]

By Karen Tuason. Photo by Jimmy Domingo/ Task Force Mapalad. Karen will be sharing her success story at Youth: The future of sustainable landscapes to be held at the Global Landscapes Forum at 9am CET November 16, 2013. If you can’t make it to Warsaw, watch the event online at archive.globallandscapesforum.org/live-stream. When you know the […]

Forests play a major role in achieving Millennium Development Goal 1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and in striving for food security. Globally, millions of people depend on forests for their food security and nutrition, directly through the consumption or sale of foods produced in forests, indirectly through forest-related employment and income, forest ecosystem […]

In Brazil’s wild west, a state government is trying to prove that it is possible to safeguard the Amazon – and improve the lives of rural people at the same time. Acre is one of the country’s most remote jurisdictions: the state capital Rio Branco sits on a tributary of a tributary of the Amazon […]

To mitigate risks of ecosystem service degradation in dryland landscapes, we need to ensure that tradeoffs are managed through informed land use, especially in high potential agricultural areas, such as the Guinea Savanna zone in Africa. The Guinea Savanna zone in Africa was described in a recent FAO/World Bank publication as the “sleeping giant” for commercial agriculture, with potential […]