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This blog by Liz Deakin and James Reed was originally published on Forests News Integrated approaches to land management at landscape scales have been evident in the development and conservation sectors, under various guises, for many years now. But despite initial promise, strategies such as Integrated Conservation and Development Programs, Ecosystem Based Approaches and Integrated Watershed Management have in many […]

This was originally published on CIFOR’s DG’s Blog New York climate week offered an opportunity to reflect on ways forward for research, outreach and capacity development—three dimensions of CIFOR’s work—to help transforming these commitments into actions on the ground. In short—what does the summit tell us to do? One part of the summit program is dedicated to eight […]

This video features “the landscape approach to minute taking” of the high level discussion on integrated landscapes approaches for agriculture and forestry at the CGIAR Development Dialogues. It distilled the discussions into a colourful mind map in a 90 second timelapse video. The discussion was facilitated by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Speakers at this […]

  This post by Kate Evans was originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News A new partnership with Norway and Germany is an opportunity for Peru to put in place a comprehensive, public deforestation monitoring system by the time the country hosts the UNFCCC climate meeting in December, says Daniel Nepstad, Executive Director of the Earth Innovation Institute who will […]

To foster new thinking, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Earth Institute of Columbia University issued a challenge to six thought leaders on climate: Tell us your big ideas on how to change the future by challenging the present. The Colloquium on Forests and Climate: New Thinking for Transformational Change was part of New York’s Climate Week […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) How do we balance the economy and the environment? This framework is not new, and yet decades after it first seeped into academic exchanges, researchers and policymakers alike are still wrestling with it. In fact, discussions about the links between economy and environment that came […]