Videos
Louis Verchot at GLF: Climate-resilient agriculture
8 Dec 2016
Louis Verchot, Director of the Soils Research Area at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), held on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco. Now in its sixth installment, the Forum is undergoing a transformation, from focusing on policy advice to implementing action on the […]
Migration: A vehicle for sharing prosperity
7 Dec 2016
Dilip Ratha is a scholar of international migration and its relationship with global development. This is a recording of his presentation at the Global Landscapes Forum youth session on rural-urban migration held on 16 November, 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco. Dilip talks about his own migration from India to USA and the challenges of sending money […]
Erik Solheim talks climate at the Global Landscapes Forum in Marrakesh
30 Nov 2016
Eric Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, speaks with CIFOR’s Leona Liu about sustainable development and the landscape approach during the 2016 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Marrakesh. Learn more about the event at http://www.landscapes.org/glf-marrakesh/
Tomorrow’s technology for today’s land use challenges, GLF 2016 Marrakesh
24 Nov 2016
Join the movement to reach 1 billion people: #ThinkLandscape
Felicity Yameogo: Sustainable production, from the bottom up – GLF 2016 Marrakesh
17 Nov 2016
Felicity Yameogo, Manager, New Karikis International Sarl, Burkina Faso, outlines the steps she uses to transform Shea production and create better livelihoods for women in her home country. There is now broad recognition of the potential impact of landscape restoration on both mitigation (e.g. on vegetation cover and soil carbon sequestration) and adaptation (e.g. on […]
John Fa talks Pygmies, land and food in the Congo Basin
25 Oct 2016
This was our land: Indigenous people and natural resources in the Congo Basin
2015 Global Landscapes Forum: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Opening Keynote
11 Dec 2015
Former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks at the high-level opening plenary session from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session explores the investments into sustainable landscapes that countries and private actors have already committed to – as well as the areas in which we need to scale […]
Commons tenure for a common future GLF 2015
11 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The role of tenure security in providing incentives for sustainable resource management and restoration is well established. However, much of the policy attention has been on securing individual lands, which make up only part of the […]
Shaping sustainable supply chains of the future GLF 2015
11 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. This session examines sustainable-sourcing solutions – mobilizing large companies purchasing power and using real-world case studies. What are the trends regarding strategic resource cycles? What are the conditions required? The obstacles? How to encourage private investment […]
The role of agro-ecology in exploring innovative and viable adaptation measures GLF 2015
11 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Coffee is being produced in some of the world’s important biodiversity hotspots, occupying large areas at mid elevations in the tropics. Building up resilience to increasing climate variability is a challenge faced not only by coffee […]
