Farms

Originally posted by the Livelihoods Fund. Written by Livelihoods Fund with Thomas Hubert, CIFOR. The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held in London on June 10th, drew together the diverse worlds of finance and science. Investment bankers rubbed shoulders with agriculture and forestry researchers, as well as representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies, […]

Originally posted by The Nature Conservancy. By Justin Adams | TNC Global Solutions | June 4, 2015 Like most fathers of teenage children, I am often accused of being out of touch. While my work takes me to many places, geographic and esoteric, my children do have a point: it is fair to say that […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News PABRE, Burkina Faso—A simple fence that protects against grazing livestock and bush fires is all it’s taken to transform three hectares on Bertin Doamba’s farm in central Burkina Faso from denuded and degraded land into a bio-diverse little dryland forest. The enclosure, which Doamba and his family established in […]

By Clément Chenost, co-founder and technical director of the Moringa fund. Over the past 5 years, coffee production in Brazil and Central America has been severely affected by droughts and the leaf rust disease. In Nicaragua, a drop of nearly 40% was observed in coffee production in 2012-13, leading to serious social and economic impacts and […]

Originally posted on Landscapes for People, Food and Nature SUMMARY To strengthen food security and livelihoods, programs must help vulnerable communities build socially and ecologically resilient landscapes. Landscape-scale management of socio-ecological systems offers a promising strategy for this task.

By Beria Leimona, originally published at World Agroforestry Centre The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre and the RUPES project has been maintaining ‘learning landscapes’ for over a decade to discover ways of helping poor smallholders’ improve their livelihoods while conserving natural ecosystems and the services […]