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By Simon Riley. Simon Riley is an agronomist and independent researcher with the Global AgroEcology Alliance and a development reporter for the Global South Development Magazine.   With the GLF14 approaching and my residence in Sri Lanka drawing to an end, I took the opportunity to visit the Belipola Arboretum and Forest Garden, a living […]

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Environment Programme Executive Director, Achim Steiner launched a carbon offsetting application to help participants at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) offset their carbon emissions. The Carbon Offsetting Fund calculates the carbon cost created by participants’ travel and stay […]

Warning of a looming global food crisis, a recent article in National Geographic highlighted the challenges of meeting humanity’s future food needs and discussed the need for further agricultural research, which—alongside agricultural yields—has flattened in the years after the Green Revolution of the 1940s-60s brought surges in yields of staple crops like rice and corn.  More public […]

Originally published at FAO Forests and family farms are part of an integrated productive system for indigenous peoples, local forest communities, and smallholders living in forested landscapes. Together forests and family farms deliver ecosystem services and benefits for livelihoods and well-being. The infographic illustrates the relationship between forests and family farms and highlights the advantages […]

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 […]

By Marie-Eve Jean. Marie-Ève Jean is a 24 year old graduate student of water resources engineering at the University of Alberta, in Canada. She is actively engaged in community agriculture and water resources management, having volunteered in a community center in Rwanda and on a reforestation project in Costa Rica. She is passionate about international […]