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Publicado originalmente en Agronews Castilla y Leon La Fundación Cesefor es integrante desde hace dos años del proyecto EcoAdapt (acrónimo de Ecosystem-based strategies and innovations in water governance networks for adaptation to climate change in Latin American Landscapes, y que puede traducirse como ‘Estrategias basadas en el ecosistema e innovaciones en las redes de gestión del agua para la adaptación […]

By Kate Langford, originally published at World Agroforestry Centre If it’s a heterogeneous, multifunctional landscape in a smallholder context then there’s a pretty good chance climate change researchers are interested in it. If the landscape is contributing to greater food security, storing carbon and helping farmers cope with changes in climate, then all the better. In […]

Originally published at Bioversity International While the world’s climate leaders gather in Lima, Peru, this week for the 20th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Combating Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), nursery managers in Southeast Asia are busy tending their tree seedlings for the next planting season. […]

By Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change Group, World Bank, originally published at World Bank The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tells us that to rein in climate change and keep global warming under 2°C, we will have to start reducing emissions now and get to near net zero emissions […]

By Fred Pearce, originally published at Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Timing is everything. And Michael Hobbes, an old aid hand and human rights consultant, got the timing spot on with his recent blog at The New Republic on how “big ideas are destroying international development”. As the international aid […]

The key message of the recent report Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change is unambiguous: Securing and strengthening Community Forest Rights is essential for reducing an enormous amount of carbon emissions. The World Resources Institute and the Rights and Rescources Initiative stress that their paper provides the most comprehensive analysis linking legal recognition and government protection of community forest […]