Biodiversity

Este blog sobre la sesión de Foro Global sobre Paisajes REDD+ como un medio para lograr un desarrollo verde en la región de Madre de Dios, Perú fue publicado originalmente en el sitio web del WWF Perú La región de Madre de Dios es la capital de la biodiversidad del Perú; que alberga una gran riqueza cultural, […]

Originally published at Bioversity International While the world’s climate leaders gather in Lima, Peru, this week for the 20th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Combating Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), nursery managers in Southeast Asia are busy tending their tree seedlings for the next planting season. […]

Growing demand for raw materials, food and energy along with processes of migration and urbanization are putting increased pressure on our land and natural resources. Landscape approaches have developed from this need to identify integrated solutions to competing demands on land uses and multiple pressures on social and environmental systems. As such, landscape approaches seek […]

  The World Parks Congress 2014 in Sydney, Australia, has drawn attention to the problems of indigenous peoples and protected areas and to the nexus of food security and protected areas. The organizer of the World Parks Congress, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said in a press release that significant work remains to be done, […]

Launched in 2005, UNEP’s Champions of the Earth award recognizes outstanding visionaries and leaders in the fields of policy, science, entrepreneurship, and civil society action whose service to the environment is saving lives, improving livelihoods and bettering environmental governance and conservation. UNEP is a coordinating partner of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014 and will be hosting a […]

It is a question of putting life into something. Giving agriculture an honourable image, a proud image, something to be proud of, something that you can go to sleep thinking that you have done something good. Kamal Melvani It is difficult not be enchanted by Kamal Melvani’s positive energy. When she says “it is possible”, looking […]