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 *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** ‘Fragmentation is our enemy’: Why we must work together across landscapes   WARSAW, Poland (17 November 2013) — Global experts made an impassioned plea to change the way the world is tackling food insecurity, climate change, poverty and water scarcity — and warned that UN climate negotiators in Warsaw risked […]

Ruth DeFries – Denning Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s The Earth Institute – speaks about the importance of landscape approach for addressing climate change, at the Global Landscapes Forum, on the sidelines of the UNFCCC talks in Warsaw, 16 November 2013

Watch this live recording of the Opening Plenary Session at the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw on 16 November 2013, featuring: Speakers: Alojzy Z. Nowak, Sara J. Scherr, Braulio Ferreira de Souza, Olgierd Dziekoński Moderator: Peter Holmgren

It is difficult to convince a person who has spent their entire life in internally displaced persons camps to participate in environmental conservation activities. Orphans growing up during war and relying only on food rations. Traumatized people returning home and looking at trees only in terms of the products they can gain from them. People […]

Rainfall in Kenya’s Kerio Valley can be a dangerous thing. Hurtling down from the sky, it hits the ground and steals the fertile soil away, running down the Kerio River and to bottom of Lake Kamnarok where the soil is lost forever. As a young naïve boy growing up in Kenya, I witnessed the devastating […]

Sithembile Mwamakamba will be moderating Youth: The future of Sustainable Landscapes to be held at the Global Landscapes Forum at 9am CET November 16, 2013. More details at archive.globallandscapesforum.org/youth   If you can’t make it to Warsaw, watch the event online at archive.globallandscapesforum.org/live-stream. Last year the United Nations Conference on Sustainable also known as Rio+20 concluded with a big package of commitments for action by world leaders and outcome document entitled “The Future We Want”. But in […]