Development

As discussions in the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals are entering the final stage, the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN NGLS) interviewed CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren on the role forestry plays in each of the 19 suggested focus areas. UN-NGLS: On 18 March, the Co-Chairs of the Open Working Group […]

By Kate Langford, ICRAF News As the concept of a landscape approach to food production and poverty alleviation gains momentum, a group of scientists met this week to fine tune just how they will measure the health of landscapes across the globe. “A landscape approach allows us to recognize that ecosystems and people are intertwined,” […]

By Lean Alfred Santos, devex Nearly every year, huge parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are choked by heavy smoke and dust particles — popularly known in the region as “haze” — caused by illegal forest burning and agricultural land clearing that pose serious environmental, health and even economic implications to these Southeast Asian countries. Haze has become […]

Four new IFAD policy briefs introduced during discussion event on rural transformation and the post-2015 agenda. The Pre-Governing Council thematic side event on 18 February was devoted to “achieving a sustainable future for all: IFAD and the post-2015 agenda” and marked the release of new policy briefs on these subjects: Leveraging the rural-urban nexus for development An empowerment agenda […]

By the time we find out about deforestation, it’s usually too late to take action. Scientists have been studying forests for centuries, chronicling the vital importance of these ecosystems for human society. But most of us still lack timely and reliable information about where, when, and why forests are disappearing. This is about to change […]

Earlier this month, the UN open working group on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed a framework to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. The SDGs are meant to guide global action on health, poverty, hunger, climate and other development challenges. The key component of the SDGs, as its name indicates, […]