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The year 2015 is key for the future of our growing population on this planet. With the Kyoto-protocol coming to an end by 2020, world leaders will be meeting next month in Warsaw to continue work on a new climate change agreement that applies to both developed and developing countries. In parallel, there is another […]

  The Global Landscapes Forum is less than a month away, and it is time to prepare for lively debates on the what, why and how of landscapes. The landscape concept has stirred up lots of interest over the past year, but there have also been questions about what is meant by a landscape and […]

A CGIAR report reflects on the unavoidable tradeoffs between agriculture and forestry for carbon mitigation. The report argues that adding a socio-political context when analyzing strategies is key to effective decision-making. Maintaining forests may not always be preferable to use as agricultural land depending on a variety of factors. Read the full post here. Original […]

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 […]

Well-intentioned plans are too often abandoned and forgotten when villagers are left out of the land-use planning process. Conversely, by placing a 3D map (complete with familiar landmarks) in the middle of a table and asking residents what they would do as a developer, conservationist or village leader, it suddenly becomes easier to incorporate local […]

Mensaje original por Peter Holmgren. El 30 de mayo de 2013, el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-Moon, recibió de manos del Presidente de Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, el informe del Grupo de Alto Nivel de Personas Eminentes sobre la Agenda para el Desarrollo después de 2015. El informe es un resultado directo […]