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By Nadia Manning-Thomas. Nadia will be sharing her story at Youth: The future of sustainable landscapes to be held at the Global Landscapes Forum at 9am CET November 16, 2013. If you can’t make it to Warsaw, watch the event online at archive.globallandscapesforum.org/live-stream. My name is Nadia Manning-Thomas. I am 34 years old and so am […]

Climate change will have far-reaching consequences for every aspect of our lives, from the environment we live in, the pests and diseases we face, the industries we work in, the infrastructure we depend on—roads, power stations and electricity networks and the like—to the crops we can grow and the livestock we can raise. With so […]

MEDIA ADVISORY World leaders, experts to deliberate: Can we grow enough food for 9 billion people without destroying Earth’s forests and accelerating climate change? Journalists welcome to attend the Global Landscapes Forum at the University of Warsaw, Saturday and Sunday, 16-17 November. Go to archive.globallandscapesforum.org/media-contact Download PDF version One of the most vital events of its […]

This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Restoring Landscapes.  Can Ecosystem Based Approaches help get Africa ahead of the food insecure pack under the changing climate? If most of the nearly 70 million smallholder families in sub-Saharan Africa fail within the next decade to adopt sustainable land and water management […]

This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Restoring Landscapes.  In the 1980’s, Tony Rinaudo, now Natural Resource Advisor for World Vision Australia, was part of a team that relentlessly planted thousands of trees across the Sahel, but most of them died after just a few months.  Just when he thought […]

Lari, Kiambu County is in central Kenya, situated near the biologically rich southern Aberdare mountains, the rift valley and designated important bird areas (IBAs). Unfortunately these areas are threatened by charcoal production, the encroachment of agriculture and timber harvesting. Local youth, aware of these threats, have taken action by founding and managing a group which […]