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The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, convened at the Royal Society in London on 10–11 June 2015, brought together 220 experts on public and private finance, representatives from the corporate sector, senior government officials, and leading thinkers from research and civil society. The invitation-only expert symposium sought to overcome barriers to sustainable landscape investments […]

Originally posted on CCAFS’s News Blog. By Sekou Toure, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Mainmuna Fane (CCAFS West Africa)  Researchers outline the current state of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa. Agriculture plays a key role in the economic development of West African countries. By directly providing employment and income to about 70% of the population, agriculture is the […]

This post originally appeared on CIFOR’s Director General’s blog. By Peter Holmgren, CIFOR Director General. The Indian tale about the blind men and the elephant is well known. The poet John Godfrey Saxe told it like this: It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant (Though all […]

This blog post originally appeared in the Huffington Post blog. By Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) It’s the season for bountiful corn harvests. We consume corn in so many forms — for some, it constitutes a major part of a meal; for others, it provides fuel for an […]

By Dr. Hans Friederich, Director General of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Bamboo and rattan bring a wealth of practical options, but countries are not tapping into the many economic-environmental benefits of these strategic forest resources. A new global initiative will address this, providing a knowledge base of practical information, tools and […]

This article originally appeared on WRI’s blog. By Rachael Petersen, Nigel Sizer, Matt Hansen, Peter Potapov and David Thau. Co-authored with Matt Hansen and Peter Potapov, remote-sensing scientists at the University of Maryland, and David Thau, a senior developer advocate at Google Earth Engine. The world’s tropical forests are in trouble, confirm new satellite-based data […]