Sustainability

Adding a gender perspective helps to better understand future challenges of small-scale and community-based forestry. This is one of the major conclusions of the IUFRO 2013 Conference on Future Directions of Small-scale and Community-based Forestry, Fukuoka, Japan. Read the full post here. Photo: Participants at Fukuoka Conference, by Kimihiko Hyakumura

All year round, scientists from the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) hold or participate in meetings to present results and exchange knowledge in all fields of research related to forests. Just before the Global Landscapes Forum in mid-November on the sidelines of the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, IUFRO scientists were again discussing issues […]

La Serranía de los Paraguas, situada en la Cordillera Occidental de Colombia, cuenta con los sitios de Patrimonio Mundial UNESCO como Paisaje Cultural Cafetero. La Corporación Serraniagua ha sido un líder en la protección de los recursos naturales y la biodiversidad del paisaje, estableciendo una base comunitaria con un compromiso a las prácticas agroecológicas, la […]

Serranía de los Paraguas, a recognized Coffee Cultural Landscape and World Heritage Site by UNESCO, sits in a mountainous region of western Colombia. The rich biodiversity of the landscape’s natural reserves has been protected by establishing a network of leaders with a commitment to agroecological farming and community-based ecotourism, based on activities that affirm local […]

Original post by Peter Holmgren. The year 2015 is key for the future of our growing population on this planet. With the Kyoto-protocol coming to an end by 2020, world leaders will be meeting next month in Warsaw to continue work on a new climate change agreement that applies to both developed and developing countries. […]

I am pleased to see the two leading international consortia on forests and agriculture and rural development coming together at the Global Landscapes Forum to tackle pressing development and climate change issues from a wider perspective. It is well known that the fate of forests and food is bound. Because deforestation, climate change and food […]