Investments

See more session details This presentation by Bernardo Strassburg, IIS, discusses the pact for the restoration of the atlantic rainforest, how to develop a restoration economy and also large scale restoration & the landscape.

Kalibata details country’s hard road to fixing farms, forests and boosting livelihoods WARSAW, Poland (21 November 2013) — Rwanda has made major strides in repairing degraded lands and restoring agricultural productivity, correcting “huge mistakes” in land management that were made in the past, the country’s top agricultural official said. Africa’s most densely populated country is […]

See more on the session here This presentation is trying to re-think investment: how the Llanos region can be understood as a business, what their goals, risks and solutions are.

Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), discusses payments and rewards for environmental services.

The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) is promoting a new paradigm for agricultural development in which a healthy functioning ecosystem is supported as a prerequisite to agricultural development, resilience of food systems and human wellbeing. Creating such an environment will require new ways of thinking as to how large-scale investment (whether […]

Worldwide, an estimated 34 million hectares of irrigated farmland are affected by high salinity, representing 11 percent of the total irrigated land, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. If these lands were rehabilitated, they could effectively produce 20 percent of the global wheat production, which could generate an additional $42 billion of revenue […]