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 […]
Reaching a billion: Peter Holmgren at GLF
30 Nov 2016
Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), held on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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 https://www.landscapes.org/glf-marrakesh/
Wanjira Mathai at GLF: Gender and landscapes
30 Nov 2016
Wanjira Mathai, Director of Partnership on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER) Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute, speaks with CIFOR’s Leona Liu about gender and landscapes during the 2016 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Marrakesh. Learn more about the event at https://www.landscapes.org/glf-marrakesh/
Matt Hansen at GLF: Technology and the climate change agenda
30 Nov 2016
Matt Hansen, a Professor in the Geographical Sciences Department at the University of Maryland, speaks on the sidelines of the most recent GLF on remote sensing technologies and the role they can play in realizing climate and development goals.
Global Landscapes Forum 2016: Entering a new phase
25 Nov 2016
The sixth Global Landscapes Forum was held on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco. At the closing plenary, on behalf of the German Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economic Cooperation, State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth pledged support for the long-term future of GLF – and explained why he sees the Forum at the center […]
Informing the policymaking landscape: From research to action in the fight against climate change and hunger, GLF 2016 Marrakesh
24 Nov 2016
Governments, the private sector and farmer organizations increasingly have at their disposal tools to look across the range of challenges facing a country, and work together to identify solutions. Recent research has developed tools to implement global-to-local analyses. The session explores how this research can reach the right people: What is the information needed by […]
How to walk the talk: Promoting gender equality in national climate policy and action, GLF 2016 Marrakesh
24 Nov 2016
SDG 5 ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’, together with a number of gender-related decisions made by the COP to the UNFCCC in the recent past, serve as a clear global mandate for addressing gender equality in climate policy at all levels. However, reports from a wide range of organizations such as […]
Unexplored big wins for climate change through landscape restoration, GLF 2016 Marrakesh
24 Nov 2016
New science is shining a spotlight on emerging and untapped landscapes that hold potential to be a triple win for restoration, climate change and sustainable development. These opportunities have thus far been underappreciated in policy debates around climate. Now with INDC’s, awareness of sectors beyond forestry are rapidly emerging. In addition, they often face a […]
