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The launch of the African land restoration initiative AFR100 during the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum has been covered by international media such as the New York Times and The Guardian. Under the headline At Climate Talks, African Nations Pledge to Restore Forests the New York Times (Associated Press) takes a look at the launch of an African […]

Originally published at World Resources Institute At the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, countries, states, and financial and civil society institutions have announced new restoration pledges for Latin American and Caribbean through Initiative 20×20, a country-led effort to bring degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020. The new commitments bring the total area to be restored […]

On the eve of the Global Landscapes Forum, kicking off on Saturday in Paris, our speakers are active in the blogosphere, promoting key topics to a wider audience. In the Huffington Post, Johan Rockström, Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, draws attention to The Carbon Budget For the Rest of Humanity’s Time on Earth. Together […]

The newspaper The Australian has acknowledged the importance of landscapes for the mitigation of climate change and the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum: The major event this weekend will be the third Global Landscapes Forum being held at the Palais des Congres in Paris. Journalist  Graham Lloyd follows Australia’s Environment Minister Greg Hunt, a speaker at GLF, who is […]

By Steven Lawry, originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News Nearly 20 years ago, in 1996, the Namibian government granted rights to wildlife—elephants, black rhino, lion and many species of antelope—to newly formed community conservancies. Now, Namibia has 82 of these community conservancies, covering 20 percent of its territory. These community conservancies have generated work for […]

The case studies from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, the Philippines and Viet Nam highlight how forest landscape restoration (FLR) interventions enhance food security. They illustrate the ‘win-win’ solutions that can enhance land functionality and productivity, develop resilient food systems and explore the long-term potential outputs and enabling conditions for FLR interventions. A greater emphasis on the impacts of […]