Blog for People, Food and Nature

Farmers are already noticing the impacts of climatic change on their crop yields and water supplies. The Landscapes Blog has covered climate-smart agriculture, particularly when applied at a landscape scale, as a means to boost the adaptive capacity of agricultural systems and those who rely on them for food and income. Today’s post is by […] ...

The Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations (FAO), one of the ten co-organizers for the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, recently released a publication entitled Towards the Future We Want: End hunger and make the transition to sustainable agricultural and food systems. The priorities highlighted in the report reflect the need to consider [&he ...

Tomorrow marks World Oceans Day, the idea for which was originally conceived 20 years ago at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With the UNCSD Rio+20 just weeks away, the issue is of particular importance in the context of building a ‘Green Economy,’ as well as for food and nutrition security. While the […] ...

Land tenure has been increasingly implicated in the preservation of natural capital and local rural livelihoods. A new report by the Rights and Resources Institute examines the current state of land tenure and resource rights, and what progress has been made in the twenty years since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. According […] ...

At the end of May, African ministers and heads of state representing ten countries came together in Gaborone, Botswana to discuss strategies for sustainable development on the continent. From this Summit on Sustainability in Africa emerged the Gaborone Declaration, a document intended to feed into discussions at UNCSD Rio+20 and facilitate the development of significant [&helli ...

By Dr. Emmanuel Torquebiau French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa The Usuthu Gorge area, to the North West of the KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, is part of the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot. Part of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area ( ...