Blog for People, Food and Nature

By South Central Peoples Development Association (SCPDA), Guyana On February 7, 2012, the indigenous Wapichan people of Guyana, South America, released a locally-made digital map of their traditional territory alongside a ground-breaking community proposal to care for 1.4 million ha of pristine rainforest for the benefit of their communities and the world. The territory’s ric ...

A recent special issue of the Centre for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) International Forestry Review honed in on the interconnected issues of forestry, biodiversity, and food security. Christine Padoch, Director of the Forests and Livelihoods Programme at CIFOR, introduced the set of articles by drawing together the complex interactions of forests and food systems ...

By Dr. Maurizio Farhan-Ferrari, Environmental Governance Programme Coordinator Forest Peoples Programme, Moreton-in-Marsh, UK Two peer-reviewed studies published recently by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Bank show that strict conservation is less effective in reducing deforestation than community forests that are managed and controlled by ...

On the heels of the Nairobi International Forum, the discussions around integrated agricultural landscapes are still forefront on our minds. Co-Organizer Bioversity International’s Pablo Eyzaguirre extends the discourse to the web, talking about the potential for landscape approaches to reconcile the objectives of agricultural production and nature conservation. The video dep ...

“The landscape we visited was almost unable to function in an integrated way anymore” – the rather depressed conclusion of the participants who set out to visit the Maasai Corridor as part of the Nairobi International Forum learning activities. Scaling up innovation? In this case, it is scaling down. And at the very least, imposing […] ...

By Hans Herren, Director Millennium Institute, Washington, DC, USA In 2008, a UN-commissioned effort, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD), took a comprehensive look at the current global agriculture and food situation. The IAASTD report warns that continuing on the path of high-input industrial agriculture wil ...

The agricultural research agenda must reflect farmers’ priorities if they are to benefit from landscape approaches. Research investments work toward improving the productivity of indigenous crops valuable to farmers’ nutrition and livelihood objectives—a much-needed departure from the longstanding emphasis on globally-traded commodity crops. One promising development in t ...

The second day of the International Forum in Nairobi and time to put the participants to work. The mission?  To get an African elephant on roller skates to change direction. Landscapes for People, Food and Nature is a three-year initiative with three components: conducting a global review to build and communicate the evidence base for […] ...

The need for a common vision – catching crabs in a stream in Ghana – and rain shower of words –highlights from the opening session of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature International Forum, Tuesday morning in Nairobi, Kenya. It is well documented that many of today’s agricultural practices—along with population growth and changing […] ...

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