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There is a definite role for agriculture to play in climate change mitigation, but still far too little information on the scale of its potential contribution. This was the overriding message from yesterday’s COP 19 side event Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture: policies, development and mitigation potentials, hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). The […]

Watch this live recording of the Opening Plenary Session at the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw on 16 November 2013, featuring: Speakers: Alojzy Z. Nowak, Sara J. Scherr, Braulio Ferreira de Souza, Olgierd Dziekoński Moderator: Peter Holmgren

Storify summary prepared by Marta Millere. [View the story “Peter Holmgren tweets about the what, why and how of landscapes” on Storify]

It is difficult to convince a person who has spent their entire life in internally displaced persons camps to participate in environmental conservation activities. Orphans growing up during war and relying only on food rations. Traumatized people returning home and looking at trees only in terms of the products they can gain from them. People […]

Rainfall in Kenya’s Kerio Valley can be a dangerous thing. Hurtling down from the sky, it hits the ground and steals the fertile soil away, running down the Kerio River and to bottom of Lake Kamnarok where the soil is lost forever. As a young naïve boy growing up in Kenya, I witnessed the devastating […]

Soil. It’s like the air we breathe – we can’t live without it. It provides our food, cleans our water, supports our ecosystems and livelihoods, and even gives us lifesaving medicines. But we aren’t doing enough to protect it and our landscapes are in trouble. This is why the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land […]