Videos
Restoring Asian drylands – Landscape Partnership for Asia
16 Nov 2020
Join leaders from the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO), World Agroforestry and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF), Global EverGreening Alliance (Alliance) for the signing of a landmark partnership agreement to restore drylands and drought-prone areas in Asia. The Landscape Partnership for Asia will contribute to efforts to restore economic and environmentally productive functions of […]
Transformative change and the age of collective action
16 Nov 2020
Years from now, historians will be discussing the reality that we are living and the tomorrow that we are defining. But what will they call this time? The age of climate denial? The age of extinction? The age of disunity, disharmony and disparity? The story doesn’t have to pan out that way. If we’re smart, […]
“Restoring the Earth: the next decade” – latest Unasylva journal edition release
16 Nov 2020
The 252nd edition of international forestry journal Unasylva, “Restoring the Earth: the next decade”, is devoted to building momentum for the restoration agenda to 2030, particularly in light of the opportunities presented by major restoration commitments such as the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration on Forests, AFR100, Initiative 20×20 and the UN Decade on […]
Learning from the Earth: Indigenous Youth in Agrobiodiversity
16 Nov 2020
Agriculture is the primary source of income for most rural households in Asia and the Pacific. But climate change and biodiversity loss present huge threats to communities’ livelihoods – the socioeconomic ramifications of which could long outlast those engendered by COVID-19. To promote youth engagement in biodiversity protection toward achieving the pledges and commitments laid […]
Biocultural Conservation and Support for Indigenous Land Management
14 Nov 2020
Once, conservation organizations and multilateral institutions regarded many remote Indigenous and rural cultures as groups requiring relocation or “development” according to Western parameters. The 21st century has seen a burgeoning awareness that neither alternative is desirable. Nonetheless, there exists a relative dearth of examples of how best to partner with these increasingly imperiled communities to […]
Global Evergreening Alliance: Capturing collaboration from the ground up
14 Nov 2020
More than ever, we are realizing how interconnected we are. Public health, biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration are interconnected. Biodiversity underpins life on Earth; it protects our health and wellbeing and it is up to us to restore it. Ambitious actions are necessary to combat the climate and biodiversity crises, but these can only be achieved […]
Assessing and enhancing capacities to restore ecosystems globally
14 Nov 2020
Through Resolution 73/284, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021– 2030 to be the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide, as well as to raise awareness of the importance of ecosystem restoration. To support the implementation of the […]
Put out the match on monocultures?
14 Nov 2020
Home to 10 percent of the world’s species and 350 ethnic groups, the Amazon rainforest is a cornerstone of biocultural diversity (WWF). But it’s on fire. And that’s no accident. The majority of fires in the Amazon biome stem not from natural climate cycles, but the illegal burning of forest land for cattle-ranching and soybean […]
Mainstreaming biodiversity in the forest sector
14 Nov 2020
HOST: CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) Biodiversity is already a well-recognized element of sustainable forest management (SFM). The role of forests in maintaining biodiversity is also explicitly recognized by the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017-2030. In this session, panelists discuss the integration of biodiversity in the forest sector, take stock […]
Promoting Smart Biodiverse Farming for Agricultural Sustainability in Remote Communities
14 Nov 2020
Coffee is a staple of the global economy, accounting for 15 to 20 billion USD worth of exports per year, and providing jobs for tens of millions of hospitality workers around the world. But as climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss compound the existing inequities facing the world’s 25 million smallholder coffee producers – […]
