Landscapes

  In two blogs from the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, the Justin Catanoso from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting featured the event in the National Geographic, portraying Unilever CEO Paul Polman and human rights activist Bianca Jagger. Catanoso praises Polman as “one of the greenest CEOs” who understands the challenges of climate change and […]

  By Laura Deal, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News Feeding a growing population while curbing deforestation and tackling climate change will require fundamentally managing landscapes differently, said a top climate policy expert. On the need to take an integrated landscape approaches to sustainable development, “the science is now crystal-clear, [and] the economics are compelling,” […]

By Daisy Ouya, originally published at Agroforestry World Blog of the World Agroforestry Centre African smallholder farmers have a new ally in their effort to adopt farming practices that raise food production, build resilience to climate change, and create healthier and more sustainable landscapes—that is, practices that are climate smart. The aim of a new […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, originally published at Forests News Say you have a plot of forested land in Amazonia to invest in. Do you log it for quick cash, or preserve it for carbon credits? Do you clear it for oil palm or dig in for the long haul and build a tourist eco-lodge? Poultry […]

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has dedication a whole section of its reporting to the Global Landscapes Forum. Articles feature: Better Policy, Finance Needed To Balance Forests And Farming, by Megan Rowling (also picked up by the Huffington Post) Latin American nations launch 2020 land restoration plan, by Megan Rowling Latam countries launch plan to store […]