Landscape and natural resource management

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.).

Forskning visar att ett av de mest effektiva sätten att minska fattigdom i utvecklingsländer är att investera i dessa länders jordbrukssektorer. Lyckade investeringar av detta slag möjliggör stärkt livsmedelsförsörjning på både landsbygd och i urbana områden och säkrar även bönders inkomstmöjligheter.

Caroline Ochieng represented SEI and SIANI at the World Forestry Congress 2015 as panelist in a session on food security and nutrition. Here, she sums up the main lessons she took away from the world’s most important forestry event.

The Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, an SEI partner, launches key report at the 70th United Nations General Assembly. The report, titled The Value of Land, is a comprehensive assessment of land

How to understand vulnerability and how to reduce it? If you ask this question to several people on the street they are likely to give you different answers. Same is probably true for those who work with policy and make decision on how to reduce vulnerability of people in rural communities in Africa or elsewhere. Different understanding results in different way of doing things.