April 7, 2015
Calling all Land Managers: Give us Your Dirt!
Louis Wertz
EcoAgriculture Partners
During Global Soil Week, April 19th-23rd, stakeholders from the around the world will join forces to discuss the role of sustainable soil management in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. So this month the Landscapes for People, Food, and Nature Blog is digging deeper into soil. And we want you, landscape managers, to join the discussion! […] ...
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April 4, 2015
Something to talk about: expanding the conversation on Climate-Smart Agriculture
Lucila Fernandez
EcoAgriculture Partners
This past March, Krista Heiner, a project manager at EcoAgriculture Partners, joined hundreds of scientists, policy makers, and practitioners in Montpellier, France, who all had one mission in mind: to identify ways to achieve agricultural development in the face of climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was the center of the conversation; the international community, ...
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April 1, 2015
The Need for Biodiversity – Traditional Plant Use in Burkina Faso
Marco Schmidt
Goethe University Frankfurt
Alexander Zizka
The people living in the savanna belt of West Africa are currently facing profound social and landscape changes. Traditional lifestyles and agricultural practices, such as agroforestry with multipurpose trees or the semi-nomadic pastoralism of the Sahel, are challenged by the needs of a growing population, intensified agriculture and climate change. Despite positive aspects of ...
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