Videos
Chinese tree-planting efforts and its timber demand important factors in global carbon balance: scientist
10 Nov 2014
Louis Putzel, Senior Scientist for CIFOR’s Forest and Environment program, speaks about the importance of Chinese domestic and international forest policy for the UNFCCC climate negotiations at COP20 in Lima, Peru. In this two-part interview, Putzel explains how China’s own forest conservation measures have led to increasing imports of tropical timber, including from Peru. As […]
James Reed on Integrated Landscape Approaches
14 Oct 2014
The ‘Integrated Landscape Approach’ provides a basic framework for balancing competing demands and integrating policies for multiple land uses within a given area. However, attempts to formalize and characterize what the landscape approach actually represents have resulted in a plethora of interlinked terminology and re-invention of ideas and practices under multiple guises. The current […]
Large scale agriculture investments and the transformation of the global landscape
20 Jun 2014
By the Global Donor Platform Secretariat Rapid land transformation driven by large scale investments is one of the big trends defining this century. In this virtual briefing for Platform members agriculture expert Deborah Bossio dismisses the cry for more investments often heard in development circles. From her perspective a lack of investments is not the […]
Dr. Peter Minang: Landscape management
16 Nov 2013
Dr. Peter Akong Minang – Science Domain Co-Leader of Environmental Services for the World Agroforestry Centre and Global Coordinator of the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest margins – discusses reversing deforestation and land degradation trends in Africa.
Dr. Cheikh Mbow: Landscapes and Future Earth
15 Nov 2013
Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior Scientist from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and Member of the Science Committee of Future Earth discusses landscapes and the future. Video by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
