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By Kate Langford, ICRAF News As the concept of a landscape approach to food production and poverty alleviation gains momentum, a group of scientists met this week to fine tune just how they will measure the health of landscapes across the globe. “A landscape approach allows us to recognize that ecosystems and people are intertwined,” […]

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 […]

Farmers require financing to meet the growing demand for food. A new working paper identifies opportunities for investing in sustainable agriculture in ways that benefit smallholders. Smallholder agriculture and forestry is constrained by the high risk embedded in current approaches to providing capital for longer-term investments in sustainable practices.  Authors of the working paper Financing sustainable […]

View session details here This presentation by Henry Neufeldt from ICRAF talks about climate-smart agriculture, the key areas of science innovation there, some farmer climate coping strategies, the constrains, the benefits and the key messages concerning CSA.