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Growing demand for raw materials, food and energy along with processes of migration and urbanization are putting increased pressure on our land and natural resources. Landscape approaches have developed from this need to identify integrated solutions to competing demands on land uses and multiple pressures on social and environmental systems. As such, landscape approaches seek […]

Despite a decoupling of forest loss from population and economic growth, emissions from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) remain one of the most important sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Activities in the LULUCF sector can provide a relatively cost-effective way of offsetting emissions, either by increasing the removals of greenhouse gases […]

Land use change and agriculture account for 24-30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Deforestation and forest degradation are estimated to be responsible for at least 11 of that amount. If sequestration from reforestation and afforestation are excluded, the share of global GHG emissions rises to nearly 20%. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, […]

Better management of agricultural lands, forests, and tree resources is an effective response to many of the challenges of climate change. Actions in both the agriculture and forestry sectors can contribute to reducing emissions, and to enhancing resilience and reducing vulnerability of rural populations around the world. Land-use change for agriculture, including tropical deforestation, is […]

One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, was the agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accompanied by a guiding outcome document, “The Future We Want,” which set the frame […]

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