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The latest round of U.N. climate talks came to a close in Bonn, Germany last week, with negotiators agreeing to start drafting the international climate agreement set to be finalized in 2015. As negotiators look towards the next UNFCCC meeting in June, they’re faced with a key question: What does this agreement actually need to […]

The year 2013 saw record high numbers for agricultural production and more stable commodity prices than the previous several years, but findings from the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report suggest that the state of global nutrition and food security is still fragile. The report focuses on major food policy developments […]

The resettlements connected with the connection of the world’s biggest powerplant – the Three Gorges Dam in China – have received wide media attention since 2007, when 1.3 million people had to leave their homes for the construction of the dam. In Vietnam, the government has started to move people from their villages near the […]

If conventional farming practices remain unchanged it could result in agricultural yield decreases of 10-15% globally in the face of climate change. Experts agree that the world is already committed to a 2°C mean temperature increase, but what happens if the climate changes more dramatically than our modest estimates suggest?  The need for planned agricultural […]

By Kate Langford, ICRAF News As the concept of a landscape approach to food production and poverty alleviation gains momentum, a group of scientists met this week to fine tune just how they will measure the health of landscapes across the globe. “A landscape approach allows us to recognize that ecosystems and people are intertwined,” […]

By Lean Alfred Santos, devex Nearly every year, huge parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are choked by heavy smoke and dust particles — popularly known in the region as “haze” — caused by illegal forest burning and agricultural land clearing that pose serious environmental, health and even economic implications to these Southeast Asian countries. Haze has become […]

Written by Dinesh Panday, YPARD Nepal Representative Nepalese agriculture is typically characterized by smallholder, traditional and subsistence farming; however, recent declines in agricultural production have depressed rural economies and increased widespread hunger and urban migration. The agricultural sector of Nepal experienced several changes over time. The most common trend is  the out-migration of males from villages across the country, which has fueled a “feminization of agriculture”: women engagement […]

What is the Landscape Portal? The main purpose of the Landscape Portal is to create a space where scientists and other users can share and explore spatial data and maps What is new about it? The Landscape Portal is built on a seamless online GIS platform building on open source platforms and tools. It is supported […]