Videos
Discussion Forum 1: Delivery of quality and diverse planting material
6 Dec 2018
Delivery of quality and diverse planting material is a major constraint for restoration. What solutions, what emerging needs? The Bonn Challenge have now pledged 350 million hectares of degraded land globally for different forms of restoration. It can be an essential contribution to sustainable development, to reduce poverty, food insecurity and enhance biodiversity. However, restoration […]
Side Event 2: The future of AFR100: Restoration opportunities for young people
5 Dec 2018
The AFR100 side-event will discuss youth participation in AFR100 and how to enable young people to benefit from implementing FLR in terms of job opportunities and economic perspectives,giving a voice to young people from Africa and linking them to the global restoration agenda. This session will bring together a variety of stakeholders from different sectors […]
Youth Plenary: Creating our Shared Future
5 Dec 2018
Although young people represent diverse stakeholder groups – rural and urban, formally educated and not, privileged and underprivileged, researchers and young professionals, foresters and farmers– youth share a vested interest in addressing complex intergenerational issues and ensuring the sustainable use of global landscapes, both in the future and right now. Young people today are harnessing […]
Plenary: Collaborative Leadership
5 Dec 2018
The increasing complexity of landscapes requires novel forms of leadership – leadership that crosses sectors and traditional hierarchies, bringing together different landscape actors in a way that prizes their diversity and is attentive to all needs. Landscapes know no boundaries; the leadership that governs them should be similarly holistic. The Collaborative Leadership Plenary will bring […]
Plenary: Action on the ground
5 Dec 2018
From a start-up entrepreneur taking on Germany’s second-largest energy provider to save a forest to a UNCCD expert who knows all the ins and outs of some of the world’s largest climate and development funds, this plenary brings together an array of speakers who sit at the intersection of different sectors and landscapes, and are […]
Interview with Ada Osakwe – GLF Bonn 2018
5 Dec 2018
Ada Osakwe is the Chief Executive of Agrolay Ventures, an investment firm dedicated to growing the agricultural and food sector in Africa. Osakwe has served as the Senior Investment Adviser to Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, advising the minister on all agriculture investment-related activities involving private sector investors, and led investment […]
Interview with Yacouba Sawadogo – GLF Bonn 2018
5 Dec 2018
Yacouba Sawadogo is known as “the man who stopped the desert”. Born around 1946 in the province of Yatenga in Northern Burkina Faso, and after attending Koranic school in Mali, Sawadogo returned to Yatenga to work as a salesman at a local market. Severe droughts in the region around 1980 marked a turning point in […]
Interview with Stefan Schmitz – GLF Bonn 2018
5 Dec 2018
Stefan Schmitz is Deputy Director-General and Commissioner for the “One World – No Hunger” Initiative at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Bonn. For the last eight years he has been leading the rural development, agriculture and food security work at BMZ. From 2007 until 2009 he worked as senior […]
LEADERSHIP 101: Step-by-step guide to sparking action: Voices from the Landscapes
5 Dec 2018
In starting a new initiative, step 1 is often the hardest to take. This session brings together six incredible community leaders who have not only taken the first step toward creating the change they want to see in the world, but who have also gone on and achieved it. Bringing leading speakers from the ‘Voices […]
Launchpad: A Philosophy of Landscapes
5 Dec 2018
Commonland’s framework focuses on generating 4 returns (social, natural, financial and inspirational) via a stakeholder management process in 3 landscape zones (natural, combined and economic zones), to develop investable business cases with long time horizons of at least one generation.
