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PAR Peter Holmgren La semaine dernière, le Groupe d’experts de haut niveau de l’ONU sur le Programme du développement post 2015 s’est réuni à Bali, en Indonésie. L’engagement politique de la conférence Rio + 20 de l’année dernière concernant un accord sur un ensemble d’objectifs pour l’après 2015 reste fort. Ces Objectifs du Développement Durable […]

Last week, the UN High-level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda met in Bali, Indonesia. The political commitment from last year’s Rio+20 conference to agree on a set of post-2015 goals addressing the broad challenges of poverty eradication, environmental protection and sustainable consumption and production (the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs) remains strong. Read the full […]

We seem to have a new debate in international forestry circles following our recent initiative to hold a global forum on landscapes at the 2013 UNFCCC COP in Warsaw. Most reactions to our combining of the former forest and agriculture days have been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. Creating an alliance between forestry and agriculture is […]

Post orginal par Eleanor Milne. Lors de la Journée de la Forêt de l’année dernière, il semblait qu’un mot dominait sur ​​toutes les lèvres: «paysages». Nous l’avons entendu dans des conversations, les présentations, d’ailleurs la journée en elle-même était placée sous le thème  «Vivre le Paysage », ce qui représente une nouvelle collaboration entre Journée de […]

At last year’s Forest Day, it seemed that there was one word on everybody’s lips: ‘landscapes’. We heard it in conversations, in presentations, even the event itself was held under the theme of ‘Living Landscapes’, representing a new collaboration between Forest Day and Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day. A collaboration which explores the relation between […]

A new approach to managing land based on the social, economic and environmental services it provides could end the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed for the sake of agricultural development and help stakeholders decide how best to maximise the potential of their land to secure sustainable food supplies long-term. Read the full […]