Landscape and natural resource management

A new initiative for restoring degraded land – the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) - was launched during COP21 in Paris. The goal of AFR100 is that 100 million hectares of land will be restored or in the process of being restored by 2030.

The UN-REDD programme recently launched a new online REDD+ training course for practitioners, policy makers and communities.

Four years ago in Bonn, world leaders set a goal of restoring 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020.

Derived from landscapes.org, originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News

Take the time to get to know the themetic cooperation between SIANI & Focali around forests, landscapes and food security at the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) in Paris on December 5-6.

The motto of the Global Landscapes 2015 implies that everything is connected. Indeed, land use change and related issues are among major drivers of the changing climate. As the global leaders gather in Paris for the COP21, the Global Landscape Forum aims to leverage the opportunity to shape the global development agenda.

This expert group aims to establish a network linking the international and the national Swedish resource bases for agriculture and development.

Very seldom forest communities are treated as true partners in project development together with organizations, companies or the government.

The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen offers the MSc programme Tropical and International Forestry with the international degree Master of Science (M.Sc.).