Farms

Press release originally published by the Rights and Resources Initiative In an analysis of almost 73,000 concessions in eight tropical forested countries, more than 93 percent of these developments were found to involve land inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. According to the research, conducted by The Munden Project, the total amount of land […]

This blog by Liz Deakin and James Reed was originally published on Forests News Integrated approaches to land management at landscape scales have been evident in the development and conservation sectors, under various guises, for many years now. But despite initial promise, strategies such as Integrated Conservation and Development Programs, Ecosystem Based Approaches and Integrated Watershed Management have in many […]

  Beatriz Zavariz will be pitching an idea or recommendation at the youth session on the GLF theme of ‘implementation of integrated landscape approaches’. Learn more about the GLF youth session here! If you will be attending COP20 in Lima, build you professional skills and knowledge by attending the youth masterclasses. Beginning when I was three years old and my […]

Originally published at CIAT blogs RTBMaps is a flagship online atlas developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) that provides all sorts of geographic information on RTB crops worldwide for the benefit of the research and development community. RTBMaps just received the ComputerWorld 2014 Data+ Editors’ Choice Award for its innovative use of big data […]

Warning of a looming global food crisis, a recent article in National Geographic highlighted the challenges of meeting humanity’s future food needs and discussed the need for further agricultural research, which—alongside agricultural yields—has flattened in the years after the Green Revolution of the 1940s-60s brought surges in yields of staple crops like rice and corn.  More public […]

Originally published at FAO Forests and family farms are part of an integrated productive system for indigenous peoples, local forest communities, and smallholders living in forested landscapes. Together forests and family farms deliver ecosystem services and benefits for livelihoods and well-being. The infographic illustrates the relationship between forests and family farms and highlights the advantages […]