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Across Asia, young people in rural areas are less likely to receive communication on climate change than their urban counterparts. This fact might not seem surprising; after all they’re also less likely to have access to the electricity necessary to power a television. But communication can amplify the voices and actions of innovators in rural […]

More than 70 presentations were shared during the Global Landscapes Forum and as multimedia event resources in the days after the conference. Here are the slideshows most popular with the online community – five stories about landscapes approaches turned into action. 1. Importance, Key Questions on Resilience and Managing Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayas […]

In Zambia, the weather is changing — the rainy season begins later in the year than it once did, and its duration is now unpredictable, creating confusion about the best time for planting, a U.S.-based farmer told delegates during a presentation delivered on the sidelines of the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By […]

Certifications have become common in certain globally-trading agricultural sectors, such as the coffee industry. But scaling up certification to encompass the whole landscape – including ecosystem services – is much trickier. At the same time, researchers are experimenting with extending certification schemes to other sectors, for example livestock agriculture. Capturing the entire supply-chain can be […]

Most of the viable REDD projects up and running today work in part by taking the pressure off forests, and most do that by providing alternative livelihoods for people who might otherwise be forced to chop down trees. That’s a key component of the “landscapes approach” to agriculture that dominated side events at climate talks […]

Despite the large quantity of climate-change research focused on adaptation, mitigation and gender, not much of it is leading to transformative action on the ground, said a top forestry expert at the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By Julie Mollins, published on CIFOR Forest News Improving technology, generating political will, crafting gender sensitive […]