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What’s a climate-smart landscape? ”Climate-smart landscapes operate on the principles of integrated landscape management, while explicitly incorporating adaptation and mitigation into their management objectives.” The concept of climate-smart landscapes covers what climate smart agriculture aims to achieve: Food security, improved livelihoods, low emissions development, resilience and recognition of ecosystems. Sara Scherr, President and CEO of […]

Post orginal par Eleanor Milne. Lors de la Journée de la Forêt de l’année dernière, il semblait qu’un mot dominait sur ​​toutes les lèvres: «paysages». Nous l’avons entendu dans des conversations, les présentations, d’ailleurs la journée en elle-même était placée sous le thème  «Vivre le Paysage », ce qui représente une nouvelle collaboration entre Journée de […]

At last year’s Forest Day, it seemed that there was one word on everybody’s lips: ‘landscapes’. We heard it in conversations, in presentations, even the event itself was held under the theme of ‘Living Landscapes’, representing a new collaboration between Forest Day and Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day. A collaboration which explores the relation between […]

A new approach to managing land based on the social, economic and environmental services it provides could end the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed for the sake of agricultural development and help stakeholders decide how best to maximise the potential of their land to secure sustainable food supplies long-term. Read the full […]