Climate change

IISD Reports: Peter Holmgren, Director General, Centre for International Forest Research (CIFOR), explained that the Global Landscapes Forum is a logical outgrowth of the idea that agriculture, ecosystems and human livelihoods are all deeply interrelated. He noted that policymaking today is increasingly evidence-based, and that it would be important for researchers to become more relevant […]

El cambio climático implica consecuencias de largo alcance para todos los aspectos de nuestra vida; desde el medio ambiente en que vivimos, las plagas y enfermedades que enfrentamos, los sectores en los que trabajamos y la infraestructura de la que dependemos, hasta la agricultura y ganadería que a futuro podríamos producir. Con tantas áreas que […]

The task of influencing policy is a complex one, as policy makers always have to listen to a number of stakeholders. In the context of climate change, these stakeholders include scientists and communities; the farmers and women who are who are living with the impacts of the changing climate. All the scientists here at the […]

So far, it is the farmers who are taking the lead on climate smart agriculture, supported by scientists and the development community. It’s time for the global policy community to step up. Agriculture produces over half of the world’s non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. Its potential for mitigation is huge. Many agricultural groups, insist that agriculture […]

At the close of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), as the buzz grows about how our hands seem to be tied concerning injecting agriculture into the climate negotiations, we ask ourselves – could gender insights be the key to informing our landscapes approach delivery? In a GLF discussion forum on linking gendered knowledge with gender-responsive action […]

Rachel Kyte – Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank and incoming special envoy for climate change – discusses landscapes, forests and the post-2015 development agenda at the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw, 17 November 2013. “It’s taken years and real leadership to get researchers from different disciplines working together,” she says.