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See more from the session here This presentation by Thomas Hofer focuses on the areas of work with the landscape approach, why mountains play an important role, how watershed management also contributes and how everything is implemented.

See more from the session here This presentation by Gernot Laganda shows the IFAD’s point of view on landscapes: why they’re so concerned with it, how climate change impact on agricultural landscapes and how the IFAD integrates land, food and climate systems.

Live recording of the technical and networking session Managing landscapes for food, fuel, fiber and forests, held during the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw, with experts from the private sector, NGOs, government agencies and research institutes. A combination of short presentations, panel discussion, and audience questions were designed to stimulate debate around the key issues […]

“Many consider conservation as a matter of only the biological sciences. I say rubbish – it’s political.” Thus, an hour into the first round of technical sessions, panelist Edmund Barrow of the IUCN framed the entire context surrounding the 2013 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Warsaw, Poland. Also in Warsaw, in a move described as […]

This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Restoring Landscapes.  Can Ecosystem Based Approaches help get Africa ahead of the food insecure pack under the changing climate? If most of the nearly 70 million smallholder families in sub-Saharan Africa fail within the next decade to adopt sustainable land and water management […]

Permaculture, with its remarkable ability to contribute to socioeconomic development at the household level, truly transforms lives. We at Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology have seen this firsthand, and continue to spread the benefits and practices of permaculture and agroecology in rural communities of Malawi. We strongly believe that communities should be given access […]