Development

CIFOR postdoctoral fellow Ashwin Ravikumar on the the importance of engaging young people at the Global Landscapes Forum: “The amount of learning that just happened in that room, not just by young people but also by older professionals was amazing.”

by Hannah Watson  A fire rages, not only clearing large swathes of forest, but also threatening a protected area nearby. Managers are largely powerless to control the fires outside their site boundaries. A new dam is constructed on a river, starving a downstream protected wetland of the sediment and nutrients it needs to survive, so […]

Are you interested in joining the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum? Subscribe to our newsletter to not miss any updates. By Ayesha Constable, University of the West Indies and Youth Facilitator on the post-2015 Development Agenda Being a member of the Global Landscapes Forum team was a great honor- put simply, it was a big deal. […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, originally published at Forests News Early successes in Brazil and Indonesia are proof positive that low-emissions sustainable development is practicable, according to a land-use policy expert. Speaking to more than 1,000 participants at the Global Landscapes Forum—organized by the Center for International Forestry Research on the sidelines of the UN climate […]

By Barbara Fraser, originally published at Forests News African herders who have traditionally moved livestock from place to place, following seasonal forage and water supplies, increasingly find their old paths blocked by land speculators and investors, experts say. In other parts of the world too, similar problems plague indigenous people who practice shifting cultivation in […]

By Barbara Fraser, originally published on Forests News In an indigenous village deep in the Amazon forest, a family clears a small plot in the forest, plants cassava or other crops for a couple of years, and then moves elsewhere, leaving the plot to be overtaken by forest. “Slash and burn,” as it is sometimes called, is […]