Videos

Solutions for Resilience – How are Forest and Farm Producer Organizations and Smallholders responding to COVID-19?

26 Jun 2020

Smallholder Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPOs) from across the globe will share the innovative solutions they are implementing in response to the COVID-19 crisis to build more resilient communities. For example, the pandemic has put a strain on forests as places of leisure and refuge from urban life, increased pressure on ecosystem preservation services, […]

Using big data to monitor land use for healthy forests and food production

26 Jun 2020

The land use sector plays an important role in achieving a more sustainable future as forests are key to climate change mitigation, and food production must be ensured for a growing population. This session at GLF Bonn 2020 discusses the role of data in achieving transformational change towards more sustainable and climate friendly food systems. […]

How a One Health approach can prevent and mitigate future pandemics

25 Jun 2020

Several years ago, a scientific assessment declared that the future costs of disease pandemics could be in the same order as those of climate change. As the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic continues to upend lives and economies, those costs are becoming clearer by the day. Yet funding and policy leadership for stopping or managing pandemics […]

A path to more sustainable food and commodity production

25 Jun 2020

Global studies and many commodity producers and brands agree on the need to transform food/commodity production and landscape management to more sustainable and inclusive approaches. This session at GLF Bonn 2020 will discuss opportunities and constraints around bridging gaps in policy, practice and financing for sustainable value chains. The session will introduce the GEF7-funded Food […]

Food for thought: The role of diets in improving human and planetary health

25 Jun 2020

The triple challenge: a stable climate, food security and space for nature – Food for thought: The role of diets in improving human and planetary health Meeting the dietary needs of a growing global population while averting dangerous climate change and safeguarding nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time. This session will […]

Integrated solutions to adapt to a changing world

25 Jun 2020

The triple challenge: a stable climate, food security and space for nature – Integrated solutions to adapt to a changing world The COVID-19 pandemic combined with the impact of record fires around the world is showing how connected humans are to nature, its resources and biodiversity. Land use change, including deforestation, is a key driver […]

Scaling up solutions to address the triple challenge

25 Jun 2020

The Triple Challenge raises difficult questions for decision-makers and stakeholders. In particular, how can we encourage scale-up of known solutions, such as reducing food waste, and also resolve remaining trade-offs between climate mitigation, food and biodiversity restoration priorities? To find acceptable and context-specific answers to this question, we need good processes for consideration of complex […]

Q&A Session: How to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems?

25 Jun 2020

A Q&A session from the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance on how to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems On June 3rd, Climate Policy Initiative Senior Analysts Daniela Chiriac and Tatiana Alves will answer questions about how to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems. They lead the Global […]

Soils as Keystone for Food Security and Ecosystem Restoration

25 Jun 2020

Soils provide the basis for more than 95% of the food produced in the world and support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and agricultural workers. The accelerated degradation of soil and land constitutes an important threat and is widely accepted as the most critical factor in limiting agricultural production in certain regions of the world. […]