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More than 70 presentations were shared during the Global Landscapes Forum and as multimedia event resources in the days after the conference. Here are the slideshows most popular with the online community – five stories about landscapes approaches turned into action. 1. Importance, Key Questions on Resilience and Managing Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayas […]

In Zambia, the weather is changing — the rainy season begins later in the year than it once did, and its duration is now unpredictable, creating confusion about the best time for planting, a U.S.-based farmer told delegates during a presentation delivered on the sidelines of the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By […]

Despite the large quantity of climate-change research focused on adaptation, mitigation and gender, not much of it is leading to transformative action on the ground, said a top forestry expert at the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By Julie Mollins, published on CIFOR Forest News Improving technology, generating political will, crafting gender sensitive […]

By Julie Mollins REDD+ will only grow if its scope does, too – beyond just forests, looking at the whole landscape. Do you agree? Or do you think REDD+ should focus on trees first? Join the debate: bit.ly/19DRrNK WARSAW, Poland — A proposal to alleviate deforestation could benefit greatly from a cross-sectoral, holistic approach to […]

See more session details This presentation by John Colmey from CIFOR shows how the traditional communications model is not working anymore. Instead new media like social media need to be integrated and the Global Landscapes Forum is a successful example of how all those new methods and media can be integrated.

See more session details This presentation by Maria Brockhaus answers the following key questions concerning the GCS study: What makes knowledge generation and uptake successful? What are some of the barriers to sharing knowledge? How well do we know what other people need to know? What are some of the tools we can use to […]