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Ségolène Royal is Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and is confirmed as high-level speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum.

Originally posted on the blog of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) This article links to a session at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6, December in Paris): Odds and ends for restoring landscapes through agroforestry. Land restoration is a key theme at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), the biggest […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Herry Purnomo Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest. And then – boom! Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber logging boom. Illegal logging followed – so, another boom in the 10 years from 2000, and then the palm oil boom came after that. Pristine forest was […]

With one in three people malnourished worldwide, nutrition is a powerful driver of sustainable development—it has the power to either propel the agenda forward or hold it back. Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy life, adults who are overweight and obese—malnutrition takes many forms and affects every country […]

Paula Caballero, a World Bank director and speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, congratulates the inclusion of a focus on the world’s ocean in the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals: At this week’s UN Sustainable Development Summit, the world’s oceans will be getting the attention they have long deserved — but not always received. They […]

Originally posted on CIAT’s News Blog. Open letter to the heads of state attending the 70th UN General Assembly, September 2015, New York Co-advancement of Agricultural and Natural Resource Management within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The 17 global goals which you have supported the creation of are an unrivalled span of human aspiration […]