Videos
Planet for sale – Dr. Tony Simons
10 Jan 2018
Tony Simons, Director General World Agroforestry Centre, give a talk at Landscape Talks, Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, 20 December 2017.
Learning-by-Doing: Practical Landscape Lessons from West Africa
30 Dec 2017
Miro Forestry has been operating in West Africa for seven years, often as a pioneer in plantation forestry. In this time the company has encountered various political, environmental and social challenges. This talk by Stephanie Doig and Andrew Collins summarises the major challenges faced and goes on to detail lessons learnt from a specific landscape […]
Performance of land use intensification for poverty eradication in forest-frontier locations
30 Dec 2017
Adrian Martin give a talk on the intensified use of land can transform the lives of those living on it, very often reducing poverty but also driving displacement and the destruction of local practices. Drawing on new evidence that different types land use intensification have a widely varying impact on local marginalised groups, the session […]
Peatlands Matter: GLF Bonn 2017 Summary video
26 Dec 2017
On Dec 19-20, the Global Landscapes Forum brought together 1000 attendees from 103 countries in the World Conference Center in Bonn. In total, 21,610,513 people were reached across social media and fully 51,000 people tuned in live from 114 different countries to connect, learn, share and act around our planet’s greatest climate and development challenges.
Robert Nasi – Opening remarks GLF Bonn 2017
21 Dec 2017
Robert Nasi, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research, will give welcoming remarks at Global Landscapes Forum 2017.
Why care about peatlands? – Daniel Murdiyarso
21 Dec 2017
CIFOR Principal Scientist discussed the Global Wetlands Map’s development, its use, and the need for verifications. An Indonesian case study will demonstrate how to locate degraded peatland. Criteria of successful restoration by rewetting degraded peatland will be proposed.
Minister Barbara Hendricks – Opening Keynote Speech at GLF Bonn 2017
21 Dec 2017
Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany, Barbara Hendricks, spoke at the opening plenary session from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2017.
Are you ready to spark a movement? – Scott Goodson
21 Dec 2017
Goodson shared his views on how the GLF can meet its goal to reach 1 billion people, developing a community around sustainable landscapes, restoring degraded land, ensuring land rights, gender rights and adequate finance, addressing the challenges posed by food insecurity and declining rural livelihoods.
Erik Solheim – Opening Keynote Speech at GLF Bonn 2017
21 Dec 2017
Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, gave an address on the role of an engaging multi-sectoral platform such as the GLF in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and meaningful sustainable change.
Ask Me Anything: Sadhguru
21 Dec 2017
A conversation with Sadhguru, a yogi and mystic who founded the Isha Foundation. The foundation focuses on human wellbeing and has over nine million volunteers. Sadhguru discusses various projects, such as Green Hands, aimed at tree planting, and Action for Rural Rejuvenation, which focuses on revitalizing rural communities. He emphasizes the importance of inner transformation […]
