Videos
Assessing and enhancing capacities to restore ecosystems globally
14 Nov 2020
Through Resolution 73/284, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021– 2030 to be the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide, as well as to raise awareness of the importance of ecosystem restoration. To support the implementation of the […]
Put out the match on monocultures?
14 Nov 2020
Home to 10 percent of the world’s species and 350 ethnic groups, the Amazon rainforest is a cornerstone of biocultural diversity (WWF). But it’s on fire. And that’s no accident. The majority of fires in the Amazon biome stem not from natural climate cycles, but the illegal burning of forest land for cattle-ranching and soybean […]
Mainstreaming biodiversity in the forest sector
14 Nov 2020
HOST: CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) Biodiversity is already a well-recognized element of sustainable forest management (SFM). The role of forests in maintaining biodiversity is also explicitly recognized by the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017-2030. In this session, panelists discuss the integration of biodiversity in the forest sector, take stock […]
Promoting Smart Biodiverse Farming for Agricultural Sustainability in Remote Communities
14 Nov 2020
Coffee is a staple of the global economy, accounting for 15 to 20 billion USD worth of exports per year, and providing jobs for tens of millions of hospitality workers around the world. But as climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss compound the existing inequities facing the world’s 25 million smallholder coffee producers – […]
Seizing the landscape opportunity to catalyse transformative biodiversity governance
14 Nov 2020
HOSTS: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) with Satoyama Initiative, LandScale, UNU-IAS, HoARECN – African Landscape Dialogue The various changes around the world is gradually telling us about the need for a huge transformational shift in our biodiversity. This move calls for the collaboration of all actors espaecially the non state actors to help achieve the […]
Landscape biodiversity for healthy people and healthy economies: tools for preventing future pandemics and for re-establishing nature-based tourism
14 Nov 2020
HOST: World Bank COVID-19 has brought new attention to the interdependence of landscape, human and animal health. While the pandemic’s zoonotic origins clearly evidence the risks that ecosystem degradation and human encroachment into wildlife habitats pose to global health, its aftershocks have starkly exposed the lack of resilience in our current social and economic systems. Healthy landscapes […]
The Nature of Business – What can Resilient Landscapes do for you?
14 Nov 2020
HOST: Resilient Landscapes Currently, we use 40 percent of the Earth’s land surface to produce our food – a figure that will need to double if our current food and agricultural systems are to meet the population’s nutritional needs by 2050. Unless we change tack and adopt more sustainable, land-use efficient methods of production, such […]
The role of diverse agricultural landscapes in biodiversity conservation and food system resilience
14 Nov 2020
HOST: World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Join World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and GIZ for an insightful discussion on the role that mixed and diverse agricultural landscapes play in bolstering biodiversity and food system resilience. Across a series of case studies, panelists reframe agriculture from ‘biodiversity threat’ to ‘restorative tool’, and provide policy recommendations for how the post-2020 Global […]
The Hindu Kush Himalayan Call for Action: Maintaining the ‘Pulse of the Planet’
14 Nov 2020
Home to four biodiversity hotspots, six UNESCO natural World Heritage Sites, 30 Ramsar sites, 330 IBAs and a diverse array of cultures hosting more than 1000 languages, the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region is truly a global asset in the fight against biocultural loss. But its future is at stake. Rifts and inequities between the 1.9 […]
A One Health approach for environmental, animal and human health
14 Nov 2020
HOST: The International Livestock Research Institute COVID-19 forcefully illustrates the power zoonoses that have to disrupt our economies and public health systems. In recent years, One Health has emerged as a strong approach for preventing and addressing such global health crises, as well as playing an important role in mitigating climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem […]
