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Bethany Caruso, Emory University Imagine going through your day without ready access to clean water for drinking, cooking, washing or bathing. Around the world, 663 million people face that challenge every day. They get their water from sources that are considered unsafe because they are vulnerable to contamination, such as rivers, streams, ponds and unprotected […]

Budiman Minasny, University of Sydney Last year, fires burned 2 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, creating an acrid haze that affected several neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. As nations met in Paris late last year to agree a deal to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, the huge carbon pool stored in the peatlands was going […]

By Michelle Kovacevic, Coordinator of Youth Activities at the Global Landscapes Forum This morning, I curled up with a cup of tea and read 31 amazing stories of young people working to make this world a better place. I couldn’t be more proud of the Youth in Landscapes journey we went on together in December […]

Everyone has preconceptions. Everyone is formed by their past experiences, their culture, their ethnic background and the place they come from. This means that everyone views a given problem differently and everyone has another way of approaching this problem. So what do you do when 50 young people from all over the world gather to […]

The young innovators who met in Paris for the Youth in Landscapes Initiatives were young leaders from all over the world. They were the influential front runners of tomorrow who are passionate about landscape management and improving the livelihoods of the rural communities especially smallholder farmers. I was part of the Finance and trade team. […]

I was one of the privileged 50 young innovators selected to participate in the Global Landscape Forum, Youth in Landscapes Initiative. Youth in Landscapes is one of the few global arenas where young people have the opportunity to build skills, contribute ideas on key real landscapes challenges and also undertake leadership roles through the conference program […]