Food

By Barbara Fraser, originally published at Forests News African herders who have traditionally moved livestock from place to place, following seasonal forage and water supplies, increasingly find their old paths blocked by land speculators and investors, experts say. In other parts of the world too, similar problems plague indigenous people who practice shifting cultivation in […]

By Barbara Fraser, originally published on Forests News In an indigenous village deep in the Amazon forest, a family clears a small plot in the forest, plants cassava or other crops for a couple of years, and then moves elsewhere, leaving the plot to be overtaken by forest. “Slash and burn,” as it is sometimes called, is […]

By Barbara Fraser, originally published at Forests News Forests are an important link in the food chain, especially for women and children and others at high risk of hunger and malnutrition, early results from ongoing research shows. But land rights are a crucial enabling factor in the food security of forest people, experts say. “Forests and trees […]

By Joan Baxter, originally published at Forests News It’s a unique, massive—and massively ambitious—research initiative, spanning nine landscapes across 20 countries on three continents. It involves scores of scientists and practitioners from 60 organizations, and employs a panoply of research methods from household surveys to soil sampling, from vegetation inventories to satellite imagery. And it’s […]

By Javi Ros Rodriguez, originally published at GAEA blog I always liked arid landscapes – perhaps a childhood lived in Spain and Morocco has something to do with it –, so I really enjoyed my trip to Lima, and the over 30 hours on a bus that traversed the bald and endless desert that is […]

By Magda Lovei, originally posted at World Bank Voices blog At the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, the World Bank and TerrAfrica hosted a session on Building a global alliance for resilient landscapes, Magda Lovei is World Bank Practice Manager for Environment & Natural Resources, Africa Region, and moderated the discussion. World leaders and land actors were […]