Landscapes

Written by Michael Victor for the Water, Land and Ecosystems blog Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals on hunger and poverty will require a 50 percent increase in food production in the next 15 years. In fact, a global food revolution is urgently needed, argues a recent paper by a number of leading scientists working with […]

Written by Catriona Croft-Cusworth for CIFOR’s Forests News Children need a healthy diet to grow strong bodies and minds, and to protect against deadly infections. In Indonesia, getting kids to eat healthy foods is a vital step toward overcoming problems of stunting and child mortality. But could your child’s diet be influenced by the type […]

The need for understanding the factors that trigger human responses to climate change has opened inquiries on the role of indigenous and local ecological knowledge (ILK) in facilitating or constraining social adaptation processes. Answers to the question of how ILK is helping or limiting smallholders to cope with increasing disturbances to the local hydro-climatic regime […]

Director Sustainable Finance for Bunge, Karla Canavan, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London.

By Sue Helen Nieto, originally published by TFA2020 Once called the Emerald of the Equator, the Indonesian island of Sumatra holds some of the most diverse and unique ecosystems in the world: it houses the last remaining Sumatran tigers, orangutans and elephants, and boasts a cultural diversity that is just as manifold and unique. Despite […]

CIFOR, with several partners, published an exhaustive review of the integrated landscapes approach analyzing almost 17,000 publications (read that one again – 17,000!). Read an overview of their findings here.