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    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 […]

  • The youth team for the right and tenure challenge during the "scavenger hunt"

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    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 […]

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    By Ekaterina Bessonova, Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative, Stockholm Environment Institute. Follow Ekaterina on Twitter. Zero net deforestation is the new standard for doing business in production of soy, beef, palm oil, paper, and other agricultural commodities. Today it is almost impossible for a business to maintain a large market share without integrating sustainability into the […]

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    Originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News When Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office in 2014, he made a commitment to strengthen the rights of local communities over land and forest resources. Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry has since announced that 12.7 million hectares of forestland will be transferred to local communities by 2019. This […]

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    By Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food security can’t wait and neither can decisive action on climate change FAO reported in its publication “State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015” last June that the number of hungry people has dropped to 12.9%. This […]

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    The UN-REDD Programme is pleased to announce the launch of the first online version of its succesful REDD+ Academy courses and accompanying Learning Journals, making this valuable knowledge resource available to REDD+ policymakers, practitioners and communities worldwide. The REDD+ Academy was designed to support developing countries to gain the knowledge and capacities needed to deliver […]