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Written by Catriona Croft-Cusworth for CIFOR’s Forests News Children need a healthy diet to grow strong bodies and minds, and to protect against deadly infections. In Indonesia, getting kids to eat healthy foods is a vital step toward overcoming problems of stunting and child mortality. But could your child’s diet be influenced by the type […]

The need for understanding the factors that trigger human responses to climate change has opened inquiries on the role of indigenous and local ecological knowledge (ILK) in facilitating or constraining social adaptation processes. Answers to the question of how ILK is helping or limiting smallholders to cope with increasing disturbances to the local hydro-climatic regime […]

Written by Susan Onyango for ICRAF’s Agroforestry World blog While tropical forests continued to decline, a remarkable change is happening: tree cover on agricultural land has increased across the globe, capturing nearly 0.75 Gigatonnes carbon dioxide every year. A new study titled Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry […]

By Praiya Uranukul It has been almost six months, yet my participation at Global Landscape Forum and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative mentoring program continues to inspire me – even now. The sheer scale of it – the number of passionate people enthusiastically debating options, of solutions being proposed and of the principle of the very […]

Christopher Botsford, Chief Executive Officer and joint Chief Investment Officer of ADM Capital, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London.

Originally written by Michael Casey for CIFOR’s Forests News. Smallholder farmers can benefit from partnerships with large organizations, but power dynamics can put them at a disadvantage. For centuries, life for smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia was relatively simple. They grew crops, kept the necessary amount to feed their families and then sold the […]