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Transforming the Global Landscape Organized by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development With Deborah Bossio, CIAT When Tuesday 10 June CEST 15:00 / EDT 09:00 Where Online via WebEx (access details on request) Speakers Deborah Bossio, Director of Soils Program, International Center for Tropical Agriculture What Landscape approaches are gaining ground in the arena […]

The necessary public and private investment to finance a “green economy” in Southeast Asia has so far been slow to arrive, experts said at a recent regional conference, urging a range of different approaches to help accelerate it. Mobilizing financial resources to stimulate investments in smallholder agriculture and sustainable land use — ranging from REDD+ […]

By Mary Menton and Peter Cronkleton, Center for International Forestry Research, originally published on the Landscapes for Food, People and Nature Blog. In recent decades, Peru has experimented with policy reforms to promote more sustainable forest management. At the same time, donors and NGOs have introduced community forestry initiatives that have tried to encourage rural […]

The Issue: Global environmental and social trends like climate change, ecosystem degradation or unemployment and poverty in rural areas are affecting stakeholders at all levels. Farmers and foresters in developing countries often lack access to financial and other inputs while investors are deterred from the many risks that seem to accompany investments in rural areas. […]

In his keynote speech at the recent Forests Asia Summit, Peruvian environment minister and UNFCCC COP20 President calls for reframing the role of forests and landscapes in a new climate agreement. Forests and forested landscapes should not only be treated as means to an end based on their carbon mitigation services. He proposes looking at […]

Watch this short video supported by the Elenor Ostrom Award to learn more about ecological security and adaptation to change.