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The issue: In the Amazon Basin, 70% of people already live in cities and the numbers keep rising as more farmers make the move from rural areas to urban centers. However, this migration is hardly permanent. Even though they may be formally counted as urban dwellers, migrants keep connections to their rural households. They also […]

What is the Landscape Portal? The main purpose of the Landscape Portal is to create a space where scientists and other users can share and explore spatial data and maps What is new about it? The Landscape Portal is built on a seamless online GIS platform building on open source platforms and tools. It is supported […]

Few would doubt that agriculture is one of the key sectors of the future – for feeding a growing world population, improving rural livelihoods and reducing poverty. And if managed sustainably, agriculture can help fight climate change and protect biodiversity. Still, the contributions of 500 million family farmers to food security are undervalued. To highlight […]

The projected transition of livestock systems from pure grazing diets to diets supplemented by higher quality feeds will cut greenhouse gas emissions from land use change globally by as much as 23% by 2030, while improving food availability and farmers’ income, shows new IIASA research.  Livestock production is responsible for 12% of human-related greenhouse gas […]

Four new IFAD policy briefs introduced during discussion event on rural transformation and the post-2015 agenda. The Pre-Governing Council thematic side event on 18 February was devoted to “achieving a sustainable future for all: IFAD and the post-2015 agenda” and marked the release of new policy briefs on these subjects: Leveraging the rural-urban nexus for development An empowerment agenda […]

By Jeff Campbell, Manager of the Forest and Farm Facility Family Forests and trees on farms are part of Family Farming systems. A large proportion of forest dependent people in the world are also family farmers and a significant number of family farmers depend heavily on forests. Family forests overlap directly with family farming in […]