Landscapes

This protocol will describe the methodology to be employed for a systematic map that will chart the development of the landscape approach theory, consolidate and synthesize existing definitions, and identify where and how these approaches have been implemented in the humid and dry tropics.

Representatives of International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and Permian Global met in Colombia last month to start the implementation of the so-called 20×20 land restoration initative. The Initiative itself was launched during […]

There is a considerable body of work in the fields of natural capital accounting and the related area of mapping of ecosystem services. This pilot project builds on these foundations to develop the first global map of the ecosystem stocks of natural capital.

By Peter Holmgren, Director General Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), orginally posted at DG’s blog Few people in development and environment circles could have missed that this year will see a confluence of global agreement-making. Following a 43-year process from Stockholm 1972, through Rio 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012, the post-2015 development agenda is maturing and will be the highlight at the UN […]

Youth report from the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum

By Beria Leimona, originally published at World Agroforestry Centre The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre and the RUPES project has been maintaining ‘learning landscapes’ for over a decade to discover ways of helping poor smallholders’ improve their livelihoods while conserving natural ecosystems and the services […]