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With one in three people malnourished worldwide, nutrition is a powerful driver of sustainable development—it has the power to either propel the agenda forward or hold it back. Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy life, adults who are overweight and obese—malnutrition takes many forms and affects every country […]

Paula Caballero, a World Bank director and speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, congratulates the inclusion of a focus on the world’s ocean in the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals: At this week’s UN Sustainable Development Summit, the world’s oceans will be getting the attention they have long deserved — but not always received. They […]

Applications for the 2015 Youth in Landscapes Initiative are now open. Here are the representatives who will be selecting our 50 youth innovators. Ariel Djomakon A member of the YPARD Network, Ariel is the Co-founder of GLETAFA Foundation and Head-associate at RurAgServices, a starting company that delivers services to, and invests in rural Africa. He […]

Originally posted on CIAT’s News Blog. Open letter to the heads of state attending the 70th UN General Assembly, September 2015, New York Co-advancement of Agricultural and Natural Resource Management within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The 17 global goals which you have supported the creation of are an unrivalled span of human aspiration […]

By Josh Gregory, Global Canopy Program Current methods to tackle deforestation aren’t working. The statement may be blunt but, with 6.6 million hectares of natural forest lost since 2010, it’s hard to dispute. Understanding current methods of forest protection The most common protection measure is command and control: governments restrict forest access and use by […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News blog. By James Reed I have just left the final session at the XIV World Forestry Congress, where participants discussed the challenges and opportunities of the landscape approach. These were inspiring discussions that echoed many of the themes I heard throughout the week at other sessions concerned with integrating […]