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Kalibata details country’s hard road to fixing farms, forests and boosting livelihoods WARSAW, Poland (21 November 2013) — Rwanda has made major strides in repairing degraded lands and restoring agricultural productivity, correcting “huge mistakes” in land management that were made in the past, the country’s top agricultural official said. Africa’s most densely populated country is […]

See more session details This presentation by Shahid Naeem from Columbia University focuses on the three central biodiversity issues: 1. Ecosystem services and biodiversity 2. Functional biodiversity and climate change 3. Bio-ecological adaptation

See more session details This presentation by Walther E. Baethgen asks and answers some of the most important questions concerning climate change: Adaptation to What? What Can We Expect? What Mitigation options are likely to succeed? Also it presents many interesting scenarios all related to climate change: for example how it would affect socioeconomics and […]

See more session details This presentation by Kureeba David, NAPE, focuses on the status of the forests in Uganda, the underlying causes for that status, how REDD+ is involved and what the impacts of that landscapes change is.

See more session details This presentation focuses on the role of intensive livestock farming and monoculture expansion for the environment. It also addresses the issue of land grabbing and grasslands as a carbon sink.

See more session details This presentation by Geoff Orme-Evans from Humane Society International shows how animal agriculture will increase in its importance and therefore needs new solutions.