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On October 30, we held a live Twitter chat with UNFCCC negotiator Tony La Viña, a forestry expert from the Philippines. The online public was able to ask questions live. They are summarized below, together with Tony’s answers. [View the story on Storify] With thanks to Tony La Viña and Purple Romero. This summary is […]

The ultimate objective of a landscape approach is to support those that make a difference on the ground. This happens in many different ways, tailored to the specific needs and ambitions of each landscape. It would be wrong and inefficient to try and impose top-down or one-size-fits-all solutions. It would also undermine the definition I […]

BOGOR, Indonesia (1 November 2013) — Scientists could have a greater impact on climate change policy if more research showed how communities are already adapting to changes, rather than focusing solely on long-term projections, a scientist from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has said. As policy-makers study the recently released fifth assessment by […]

It is difficult to convince a person who has spent their entire life in internally displaced persons camps to participate in environmental conservation activities. Orphans growing up during war and relying only on food rations. Traumatized people returning home and looking at trees only in terms of the products they can gain from them. People […]

Rainfall in Kenya’s Kerio Valley can be a dangerous thing. Hurtling down from the sky, it hits the ground and steals the fertile soil away, running down the Kerio River and to bottom of Lake Kamnarok where the soil is lost forever. As a young naïve boy growing up in Kenya, I witnessed the devastating […]

Soil. It’s like the air we breathe – we can’t live without it. It provides our food, cleans our water, supports our ecosystems and livelihoods, and even gives us lifesaving medicines. But we aren’t doing enough to protect it and our landscapes are in trouble. This is why the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land […]