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Until today, the topic of shifting cultivation is highly controversial, judged as a threat to landscapes. Nevertheless it remains important to indigenous peoples for securing their livelihoods and food sources. At the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, the civil society organization Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) will take a closer look at this topic by hosting […]

  The World Parks Congress 2014 in Sydney, Australia, has drawn attention to the problems of indigenous peoples and protected areas and to the nexus of food security and protected areas. The organizer of the World Parks Congress, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said in a press release that significant work remains to be done, […]

By Michelle Kovacevic, originally published at Forests Climate Change Madre de Dios, a region of Peru best known for its gold fever, is not the only place in the country where a piece of land can be classified as a mining concession and farmer’s field at the same time. Millions of hectares of land in Peru are […]

Farmers do not have an easy life anywhere, much less in Asia with its booming but unequal economies and growing population – and climate change is not going to make it easier for them. But who has an even harder life than farmers? Women farmers. The challenges for women in agriculture, forests and water use […]

Originally published at CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) invites Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from partners to carry out research for development projects that will contribute to its demand driven research agenda in the Ganges River Basin. Visit the EOI call page WLE Ganges […]

By Ilse Hennemann, Wageningen Are you engaged in the management of natural  resources for (agricultural) production purposes, or for conservation? Then you have most likely noticed that competition within the landscape over natural resources such as water, land, resources and even clean air has drastically increased. Stakeholder groups each depend on these natural resources in […]