Food

By Joan Baxter, originally published at Forests News It’s a unique, massive—and massively ambitious—research initiative, spanning nine landscapes across 20 countries on three continents. It involves scores of scientists and practitioners from 60 organizations, and employs a panoply of research methods from household surveys to soil sampling, from vegetation inventories to satellite imagery. And it’s […]

By Javi Ros Rodriguez, originally published at GAEA blog I always liked arid landscapes – perhaps a childhood lived in Spain and Morocco has something to do with it –, so I really enjoyed my trip to Lima, and the over 30 hours on a bus that traversed the bald and endless desert that is […]

By Magda Lovei, originally posted at World Bank Voices blog At the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, the World Bank and TerrAfrica hosted a session on Building a global alliance for resilient landscapes, Magda Lovei is World Bank Practice Manager for Environment & Natural Resources, Africa Region, and moderated the discussion. World leaders and land actors were […]

See below a selection of some of the blogs and ne ws articles that attendants of the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum published on other websites. We will continue to collect voices from the Forum for landscapes.org. Climate Change Creates New Geography of Food By Fabiola Ortíz, IPS (Tierramérica) The magnitude of the climate changes brought about […]

This presentation by Susan M. Braatz was given at a session titled “How indigenous peoples use landscapes approaches to conserve forests: Good practices and challenges for food security and livelihoods” at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 6, 2014. The panel focused on the roles and contributions of indigenous women in landscape forest […]

This presentation was given at a session titled “How indigenous peoples use landscapes approaches to conserve forests: Good practices and challenges for food security and livelihoods” at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 6, 2014. The panel focused on the roles and contributions of indigenous women in landscape forest management. Also, the experiences […]