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Over the past months, this blog has featured many inspiring “success stories” of integrated landscape initiatives from around the world. But are these just a series of interesting anecdotes—each stemming from its own unique context—or can we begin to derive some generalized principles that might help inform practices and policies for future landscape initiatives in […]

Youth are sometimes asked to provide their input into the big issues in the landscapes sector (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, conservation, development, industry, climate change), but let’s face it — this input often stays on the sidelines and rarely influences the ‘real’ decisions that are being made. We’re hoping to change this by providing a platform […]

Are you: Involved in the natural resource sector (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, conservation, development, industry, climate change)? 18-39 years old OR working with youth? Someone with a success story related to youth involvement in the natural resource sector? An engaging and inspiring speaker and leader? If so, you are just the person we are looking for […]

Si bien gran parte de la atención del público sobre el cambio climático se centra en el dióxido de carbono, existen otros dos gases de efecto invernadero (GEI): el óxido nitroso y el metano, que forman la mayor parte de las emisiones de la agricultura que contribuyen al cambio climático. El óxido nitroso se libera […]

In Southeast Asia, 25 percent of deforestation occurs in peat swamp forests and is driven by wood production and a demand for land for agricultural production. Techniques that facilitate deforestation, such as drainage ditches which lower the groundwater level, may affect peat methane emission fluxes. A study by Kristell Hergoualc’h and Louis Verchot at the […]

While much of the public attention to climate change focuses on carbon dioxide it is two other greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane that comprise the largest part of agriculture’s contribution to climate change. In an article recently published in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, researchers compared GHG fluxes from five management regimes for winter wheat-summer […]