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The landscape approach seeks to resolve the central dilemma confronting humanity today: How do we cope with environmental degradation and climate change, while simultaneously expanding agricultural production to satisfy human needs. The landscapes approach looks beyond agriculture, integrating it with forestry and other land uses to forge a comprehensive agenda for sustainable development to eradicate […]

Agriculture in Africa appears to be the first to be hit by climate change this century, with production projected to drop dramatically across the Continent. In a technical session during Day1 of the GLF, IFPRI presented findings from each of three new research monographs to shed light on the future of African landscapes: the good, […]

We still lack a systematic understanding of how all different elements impact each other, how they compete for resources and how they can share resources. We also lack a systematic understanding of how policies and practices designed to benefit one element might impact another, and whether those impacts are bad or good. And we lack […]

There is an oft cited fact that migration as a result of climate change could figure anywhere between 150 million to 2 billion. What you don’t hear in the media quite so often is the fact that there will be as much internal migration within a country, as there will be external. This puts enormous […]

Joseph Otim was just two years old when the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency began in Uganda. Military groups were engaged in extensive deforestation and there was widespread lumbering to produce income-generating charcoal.  Forests and local landscapes had become yet another casualty of the conflict. Once the war was over however, a new struggle had […]

View more from the session here This presentation by Gillian Petrokofsky from the University of Oxford shows what one should consider when talking about evidence-based forestry, what the bigger picture is and why a collaboration between EBF and landscape management might be the solution to many problems.