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Day 3 of the Youth in Landscapes initiative’s workshop, Global Landscapes Forum, Paris On Day 3 of the youth workshop, it was high time for participants to get their hands dirty in the task of developing solutions to their specific landscapes challenges. The teams brainstormed a range of solutions and then assessed them against a […]

William Laurance, Director of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, spoke to Voice of America about potential damage from big development projects across the African Continent. In his study, published in the journal Current Biology, Laurance and his team assessed 33 major projects, all either proposed or in […]

Day 2 of the Youth in Landscapes initiative’s workshop, Global Landscapes Forum, Paris After bonding as a team during day 1 of the workshop, on day 2 the 50 youth innovators were ready to embark on a learning and practising process to prepare themselves for meaningful participation at Global Landscapes Forum. Building skills for youth leadership […]

Originally published at CGIAR FTA At the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5–6 December in Paris) CIRAD, IUFRO and CIFOR are hosting a discussion forum: Managing and restoring natural tropical forests: Ensuring a sustainable flow of benefits for people in the context of global change. Ahead of GLF 2015, we talked to Plinio Sist, Director of […]

By Vanessa Meadu, originally published at CCAFS To secure the future of food and farming, a 2015 climate agreement should reference food security and provide the financial, technical and capacity building support for countries to devise ambitious actions for the agricultural sector. This is according to experts from across CGIAR in a new analysis, Progress […]

Day 1 of the Youth in Landscapes initiative’s workshop, Global Landscapes Forum, Paris It’s official – the 2015 Youth in Landscapes Initiative has begun! 50 young innovators are working together to solve rights and tenure, finance, landscape restoration, education and water management challenges developed with our partner organisations. From 1-4 December, our workshop is designed […]