Sustainability

Originally posted on Landscapes for People, Food and Nature. By Alberto Bernues, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. In some of the most biodiverse regions of the world, people have farmed for centuries, shaping magnificent agricultural landscapes. Multifunctionality recognizes agriculture as a multi-output activity producing not only private (market) goods such as food, feed, or fibre, […]

Originally posted by the Livelihoods Fund. Written by Livelihoods Fund with Thomas Hubert, CIFOR. The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held in London on June 10th, drew together the diverse worlds of finance and science. Investment bankers rubbed shoulders with agriculture and forestry researchers, as well as representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies, […]

Originally posted by The Nature Conservancy. By Justin Adams | TNC Global Solutions | June 4, 2015 Like most fathers of teenage children, I am often accused of being out of touch. While my work takes me to many places, geographic and esoteric, my children do have a point: it is fair to say that […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forest News. By Terry Sunderland, principal scientist at CIFOR. In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the Romans ever done for us?” Monty Python’s […]

Originally posted by Thomas Reuters Foundation, By Laurie Goering LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference. Private investors could fill the gap, […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Thomas Hubert, CIFOR. LONDON, England: There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held here on June 10. As investment bankers and fund managers rubbed shoulders with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies, […]