Videos
Robert Nasi – Wildlife: a forgotten and threatened forest resource
4 Mar 2015
In this video, Robert Nasi, Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), speaks about bushmeat and food security. Protein from wildlife (including fish) is crucial to food security, nutrition and health across the tropics. The harvest of duikers, antelopes, pigs, primates, rodents, birds, reptiles and fish provides invaluable benefits to local […]
Land tenure in forests a matter of food security, experts contend
30 Dec 2014
By Barbara Fraser, originally published at Forests News Forests are an important link in the food chain, especially for women and children and others at high risk of hunger and malnutrition, early results from ongoing research shows. But land rights are a crucial enabling factor in the food security of forest people, experts say. “Forests and trees […]
How are trees good for us? ‘Sentinels’ may hold the answer
23 Dec 2014
By Joan Baxter, originally published at Forests News It’s a unique, massive—and massively ambitious—research initiative, spanning nine landscapes across 20 countries on three continents. It involves scores of scientists and practitioners from 60 organizations, and employs a panoply of research methods from household surveys to soil sampling, from vegetation inventories to satellite imagery. And it’s […]
With climate effects looming, land-use planners reach for their toolbox
22 Dec 2014
By Barbara Fraser, originall published at Forests News It’s coming soon. And it’s time to act now. Imminent climatic changes challenge planners and policy makers to forecast likely impacts and launch adaptation plans a decade or more before the worst effects are felt. With more (and better) data and tools for exploring future scenarios, planners […]
Making the case for organic farming and for a low external input sustainable agriculture
15 Dec 2014
Watch this Civil Society Session on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. Food production is already being heavily affected by climate change. Farmers in many regions in Latin America, Asia and Africa are exposed to more frequent and longer droughts, irregular and heavy rainfalls and extreme temperatures. […]
New findings on the dynamics between forests, land use and food security
15 Dec 2014
Watch this Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. This session discusses emerging findings of a global scientific assessment of the relationship between forests and trees and food security and nutrition. Keynote Speaker Manoel Sobral Filho Director UN Forum of Forests Secretariat Speaker Susan Braatz […]
Improving livelihoods in the Andean Region
15 Dec 2014
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. The conservation, appropriation and equitable use of ecosystem goods and services – hydrologic and carbon resources in particular – are moving up higher on international and national agendas. Nevertheless, the supply of these goods and services […]
Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices
15 Dec 2014
Watch this Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. It is widely accepted that climate-smart agriculture is an important new approach to addressing food and nutritional security on one hand, and adaptation and mitigation on the other hand within one framework. This discussion focuses on […]
Building Bottom-Up LED-R Strategies: the Sustainable Tropics Alliance
15 Dec 2014
Watch this panel discussion from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. Claudia Stickler Scientist Earth Innovation Institute Ane Alencar Director, Amazon Scenarios Program Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia Margarita Benavides Deputy Director Instituto del Bien Común Bernadinus Steni Sugiarto Lawyer Earth Innovation Institute José Montero Leader, […]
Knowledge products and tools for sustainable landscape management in a post-2015 development agenda
15 Dec 2014
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. This forum discusses the role of knowledge products and tools and how they are used by relevant stakeholders in achieving a more sustainable management of forests and forest resources at the landscape scale and within the […]
