Landscape and natural resource management

Inspired by the East Asian miracle, which utilised smallholder agriculture as a conduit for economic growth and poverty reduction, many African governments have committed to contributing 10% of...

This Stockholm+50 associated event aimed to highlight the role and importance of Indigenous peoples and local communities in safeguarding the world’s forests, ecosystems, and biodiversity.

The Stockholm+50 associated event explored the role of agroecology in strengthening the implementation of the three Rio Conventions and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all the while putting smallholder farmers and indigenous communities at the center.

Marika Kronberg spent the agroecology day at SLU Alnarp learning more about agroecology at the hands of the renowned Argentinian researcher Pablo Tittonell and a group of master's students in agroecology running Alnarp's Agroecology Farm.

In view of the latest IPCC report on mitigation, there is a current pressing need to solve the climate and biodiversity crisis. Cross-disciplinary landscape approaches appear to be essential for...

A dialogue held during the Stockholm+50 heard how Kenyan forest farmers were inspired to set up the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya (FFSPAK) after a visit by Swedish foresters ten years ago.

SIANI and other partner organisations will organise a series of events supporting Stockholm+50 to showcase further efforts for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals.

Indigenous and local communities are both dependent and stewards of biodiversity. Learn more about what a human rights-based approach entails and how it can preserve both biodiversity and livelihoods.

While the Colombian peace agreement is making slow progress and has faced several drawbacks due to the political situation and lack of will from the current government, the situation of Colombia’s environment and local communities has deteriorated.