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After YPARD (the Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development) launched an appeal for inspiring people to speak at our youth session at the Global Landscapes forum, we received 150 (one-hundred-fifty!) applications. Here is the second batch of applications we received from all over the world. To read each of the 15 following submissions, […]

As part of our youth session at the Global Landscapes forum, YPARD (the Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development) launched an appeal for inspiring people to speak at the conference. We received 150 applications from all over the world, showing the enthusiasm and “drive” from these young people. In the following series of […]

Two newly released publications by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations can serve as useful planning tools for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and Low Emission Development Strategies within the agricultural sector. The two publications – a review paper and a guidance document – offer readers building blocks for national mitigation action […]

Anette Engelund Friis, responsible for climate change issues at the World Farmers’ Organization and a member of the Farming First Steering Committee, discusses key issues that need to be addressed at the upcoming UNFCCC climate conference COP19 in Poland. Climate change is transforming the world, with extreme and unpredictable weather patterns altering the natural landscape. […]

Over the past couple of weeks, acknowledging and embracing multiple objectives related to food, environment, and social wellbeing has surfaced as a common theme from our Roundtable authors in discussing the intensification of agricultural systems, and particularly as an impetus for adopting a landscape perspective. So too did this important theme stand out in a […]