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Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News blog By Laura Dattaro New York – A year ago, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it didn’t lay out a plan for how to get there. The agreement – to cut deforestation in half by 2020, and eliminate it […]

Originally posted on the World Resources Institutes’ blog. By Peter Hazlewood and Mathilde Bouyé The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals last week were a milestone moment for our collective future. On September 25, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders joined together at a UN Summit meeting in New York to formally adopt Transforming Our […]

By Dr. Hans Friederich, Director General, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Often overlooked by development planners, bamboo offers Africa a strategic resource to generate rural income. It also restores degraded landscapes and combats the effects of climate change – helping countries to meet their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and shift to a greener […]

Originally posted on the blog of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) This article links to a session at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6, December in Paris): Odds and ends for restoring landscapes through agroforestry. Land restoration is a key theme at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), the biggest […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Herry Purnomo Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest. And then – boom! Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber logging boom. Illegal logging followed – so, another boom in the 10 years from 2000, and then the palm oil boom came after that. Pristine forest was […]

Paula Caballero, a World Bank director and speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, congratulates the inclusion of a focus on the world’s ocean in the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals: At this week’s UN Sustainable Development Summit, the world’s oceans will be getting the attention they have long deserved — but not always received. They […]