Landscape and natural resource management

Goetz M. Richter (Rothamsted Research) on the challenges of using life cycle assessment and other methods for analysing land use practices

Proffessor N.H. Ravindranath (Indian institute of science) on the challanges and lessons learned from landscape management projects in India

Virginia H. Dale (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) presents a landscape design approach to assess effects of bioenergy on ecosystem and social services

New paper by Stockholm Environment Institute reviews existing methods for assessing livestock water resource use, recognizing that water plays a vital role in global food supply and that livestock production systems consumes a large amount of the available water resources.

This Policy Brief describes the state of the art in agriculture education in the Philippines, provides an overview of the environmental concerns linked to agriculture in the country and the...

The Government of Thailand is currently taking steps to promote sustainable agriculture as an alternative to conventional high- input, intensive agriculture systems in Thailand. The government...

This policy brief resulted from an outline agreed during discussions at a SIANI supported national “write-shop” with experts from the Laos Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the...

Apart from being a major mechanism for climate mitigation, forestry is also an important economic segment in many industrial countries, including Sweden, supporting thousands of jobs.

Growing world population drives the demand for food, feed and fiber. And since no country can produce all the products we now can buy in supermarkets, this demand is met through the export of agricultural commodities on the global market. Partly, the global demand is met through a rising productivity on the already established agricultural land.