Development

Countries are facing multiple challenges in the pursuit of sustainable agricultural development. At the global level, nutritious food needs to be produced for a population of 9 billion by 2050 while keeping emissions from agriculture and land uses – currently 30% – in check. Yet, negotiators at this year’s UN climate change conference walked away […]

See more session details This presentation by John Colmey from CIFOR shows how the traditional communications model is not working anymore. Instead new media like social media need to be integrated and the Global Landscapes Forum is a successful example of how all those new methods and media can be integrated.

See more session details This presentation by Kureeba David, NAPE, focuses on the status of the forests in Uganda, the underlying causes for that status, how REDD+ is involved and what the impacts of that landscapes change is.

Climate change threatens one of the most important sectors of countries’ economies: agriculture. In some parts of Africa, agriculture directly employs nearly 80 percent of the population. Most countries are aware of this and are taking steps to prepare themselves for climate change impacts. Nevertheless, developing a plan for policy action and intervention measures across […]

Helping farmers in the tropics face the challenges of climate change would profit from an interdisciplinary landscape approach that accounts for the complexity of the biophysical, social, and political contexts in which they live and work, a top scientist has said. “Many smallholders all over the world already use a landscape approach to managing resources, […]

It’s not often you get to talk about GIS, facebook, and MTV all at once. But then, it’s not often that youth get to kick-off a conference. But Saturday was a morning of not-oftens. Not least of which entailed Bruce Campbell, Program Director of CCAFS, calling out for youth to revolt. ‘You’ve been negotiating all […]