Blog for People, Food and Nature

Each year on the 16th of October, World Food Day marks the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), draws attention to agricultural production, and strengthens efforts to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. This year’s theme, “Agricultural Cooperatives – Key to Feeding the World,” raises awareness and understanding of one [&helli ...

‘The Power of We.’ This year’s theme for Blog Action Day, an international effort to bring together bloggers from around the world to blog on a globally significant topic, encapsulates a critical element of both the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, and successful integrated landscape approaches as a whole. There are many demands […] ...

Often major international meetings, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, can seem inaccessible and primarily geared toward the experts and high-level figures. The World Wide Views on Biodiversity project is one effort to bring this international conference to the people, or rather to bring the voices of citizens from around the world to the […] ...

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, or GIAHS, have been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as “remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaption of community with its environment  and its needs and aspirations for sustainable develop ...

The Convention on Biological Diversity commences its 11th Conference of the Parties today to tackle some of the most pressing issues confronting biodiversity today. The press release from the Convention paid particular attention to the issue of financing the actions needed in order to reach some of the biodiversity targets established during the last conference: “In [&he ...

Presenting a stark contrast between industrial agriculture and agroecological methods, this infographic developed by the Christensen Fund actually depicts the complexity of agricultural landscapes, as well as the interactions and interdependencies of different land use types. ...

With less than a week to go until the Convention on Biological Diversity begins, biodiversity is definitely the topic on hand, and the focus of the Landscapes Blog for the past few weeks. However, assessing risks to biodiversity and ecosystems from business ventures has not been given its spot in the limelight. Recently as part […] ...

Kathrin Trommler, Project Coordinator with the Ecosystem Services Research Group, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, provides a look into one European agricultural landscape with deep historical roots. Representing a slightly different type of agrobiodiversity than the field crops usually discussed, this diversity of fruit trees characterizes the landsc ...