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Dr Andrew Steer – President and CEO, World Resources Institute – talks about how to start a “landscapes movement” to solve the 21st Century’s biggest problems.

Helping farmers in the tropics face the challenges of climate change would profit from an interdisciplinary landscape approach that accounts for the complexity of the biophysical, social, and political contexts in which they live and work, a top scientist has said. “Many smallholders all over the world already use a landscape approach to managing resources, […]

El cambio climático implica consecuencias de largo alcance para todos los aspectos de nuestra vida; desde el medio ambiente en que vivimos, las plagas y enfermedades que enfrentamos, los sectores en los que trabajamos y la infraestructura de la que dependemos, hasta la agricultura y ganadería que a futuro podríamos producir. Con tantas áreas que […]

Can we produce food for 9 billion people without destroying our environment and accelerating climate change? This is the number one question we need to answer and one of the reasons why we are co-organising the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) – to look at approaches that are working today and lay down the research agenda […]

The task of influencing policy is a complex one, as policy makers always have to listen to a number of stakeholders. In the context of climate change, these stakeholders include scientists and communities; the farmers and women who are who are living with the impacts of the changing climate. All the scientists here at the […]

So far, it is the farmers who are taking the lead on climate smart agriculture, supported by scientists and the development community. It’s time for the global policy community to step up. Agriculture produces over half of the world’s non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. Its potential for mitigation is huge. Many agricultural groups, insist that agriculture […]