Videos
Introducing Resilient Landscapes
8 Oct 2020
Introducing Resilient Landscapes by Howard-Yana Shapiro, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Resilient Landscapes – Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF).
Keynote – Yvonne Aki Sawyerr
8 Oct 2020
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE was sworn in as Mayor of Freetown in May 2018 with a commitment to transform Freetown using an inclusive, data-driven approach to address challenges in the city. Launched in January 2019, the 3-year Transform Freetown plan details 19 concrete targets across 11 sectors and covers issues ranging from waste management and housing, […]
Tree Planting – Opening remarks
8 Oct 2020
Opening remarks by Robert Nasi, CIFOR Director General/CIFOR-ICRAF Managing Director.
Tree equity – Sarah Lillie Anderson
8 Oct 2020
Sarah’s work focuses on equipping urban forestry stakeholders to build and retain a diverse, qualified and representative workforce. Previously, she ran Lillie Leaf Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm that helped urban greening stakeholders address equity, access, inclusion and justice in their work. Sarah’s experience includes developing and administering national urban forestry programs, managing constituent engagement […]
Busting the myths and tackling the realities of tree planting
8 Oct 2020
Planting a trillion trees: a feel-good exercise or an important mission to save the planet? What does it take to make tree planting successful? The discussion will investigate some of the misconceptions about tree-planting and look at the pathways to restoring landscapes and growing trees that provide the greatest chance of success – for people and […]
Financing tree planting and proper valuation of natural assets and investments
8 Oct 2020
Besides the few headline-grabbing big pledges from companies this year, tree planting and landscape restoration at scale have struggled to attract sufficient investment. And yet, investment opportunities abound with commitments by governments to restore hundreds of millions of hectares through agreements like the Bonn Challenge and the New York Declaration on Forests, in addition to […]
From planting to natural regeneration: best approaches to tree growing
8 Oct 2020
Tree planting techniques and technology, from species selection to considering natural regeneration, can help reduce costs, improve survival rates while connecting communities. During the second session we will consider what trees make the most sense under different climate scenarios, the role of biodiversity, where do we plant which tree species – or let nature do […]
Putting tools and technology into farmers’ hands: stories from the field
8 Oct 2020
Landscape restoration is often a long-term and costly exercise. CIFOR-ICRAF have developed two important mobile tools for farmers and restoration practitioners plant the right tree in the right place for the right purpose, and collect information on how farmers are managing and protecting trees on their farms. CIFOR-ICRAF experts Roeland Kindt and Tor-Gunnar Vågen will […]
Making the world a better place with forest landscape restoration
24 Sep 2020
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) explain why restoring the world’s degraded forest landscapes is a must for human and planetary well-being.
Addressing forest crime through improved governance in the post COVID-19 recovery
25 Jun 2020
The Lower Mekong basin is a globally important ecoregion that encompasses an incredibly high diversity of forest habitats. Loss and degradation of natural forests in the middle-income countries of the region have displaced the growing demand for timber to the least developed countries of the region, and illegal logging practices and actors have followed. COVID-19 […]
