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    By Deepak Dhyani of the Society for Conserving Planet and Life, India This blog won the blog competition, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) organized for its World Congress in October 2014 Hundreds of millions of poor people around the world depend directly or indirectly on forests for their livelihoods and subsistence. There is huge […]

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      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 […]

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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    See press release here Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced  the signing of  a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is set to ensure better support for the functioning of critical ecosystem services that underlie food security. Both organizations are coordinating partners of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014 […]