Videos
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 […]
Disconnection to interconnection: The role of youth in shifting perceptions and presenting solutions to rural-urban migration, GLF 2016 Marrakesh
24 Nov 2016
This session explored the migration of people from rural to urban areas through a series of personal stories delivered by people who have experienced migration, are longing to migrate, and work in the area of migration.Using experiential storytelling and innovative design sprint methodology, participants worked together to understand the underlying challenges presented in the stories, […]
Talking gender before COP22
10 Nov 2016
CIFOR scientists discuss the main issues related to gender and climate change in the lead-up to COP22 in Marrakesh. Are women considered in climate policy? How is gender understood in global climate commitments? CIFOR will be talking gender in Marrakesh at a number of events, including the Global Landscapes Forum on 16 November.
Houria Djoudi talks power, gender and African landscapes
21 Oct 2016
Title of presentation: Once, there was a lake About the presentation: Any change that happens in natural landscapes also affects and transforms social and cultural norms, and power and gender relations. This message is illustrated in the form of a story about Houria’s findings while working in Northern Mali; where the daily livelihoods of a […]
Youth Session: Dragon’s Den GLF 2015
10 Dec 2015
Watch the Youth Session on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. 50 outstanding young professionals work on solutions to 5 landscape challenges. MC: Mia Signs, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems Dragons Paula Caballero, Senior Director at the World Bank Steven Lawry, Director of governance […]
Sharing the planet means sharing the problems: Indigenous activist Joan Carling at GLF 2015
10 Dec 2015
Originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News Those who caused the global “carbon problem” should take a greater share of the responsibility for resolving it, an indigenous activist has said. “It’s a shared responsibility, but those who caused it will have to get a bigger burden,” Joan Carling, Secretary General of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, […]
This Land is Our Land: Gender perspectives on tenure and rights
10 Dec 2015
Watch this high-level session on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session discusses the practical requirements for implementing gender-sensitive land restoration; in an effort to get beyond the usual rhetoric on gender issues. The gender dialogue brings diverse and constructive points of view to bear on […]
2015 Global Landscapes Forum: Abdon Nababan – Closing Keynote
7 Dec 2015
Secretary General for the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), Abdon Nababan, speaks at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged through the Forum and offers a […]
Indigenous Peoples’ rights and land tenure GLF 2015
5 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The respect and recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, customary land tenure and traditional knowledge have significantly contributed to more sustainable use and management of various ecosystems. Speakers at the session represent both Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and […]
