Landscapes Blog

It seems like every week we hear about another major commitment to restore degraded forests and landscapes, and pledges of millions, even billions of dollars to do so. For example, the government of Norway in January pledged $400 million for restoration, intended to catalyze a further $1.6 billion in private investment. At least $1.5 billion has […] ...

The African Landscapes Dialogue (ALD), which kicked off yesterday, 6 March 2017, in Addis Ababa, brought together more than 100 participants to discuss “integrated landscape management in practice.” H.E Dr. Gemedo Dale, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia, officially opened the ALD in the presence of participants from various countries in Africa, ...

The momentum for the landscape approach is building, and the Landscapes Blog is keeping up. A recent analysis of the Landscapes Blog’s progress in 2015 shows that the Landscapes Blog is a useful tool for getting landscape stories in front of important readers all over the world. Posts were viewed more than 45,000 times. Our tops individual […] ...

Around the world, there are at least 500 landscape initiatives where leaders like you are practicing the landscape approach. Establishing these initiatives can be challenging. As a community, we need to support each other in advancing landscape approaches to tackle interconnected issues like climate change, agricultural efficiency, the strengthening of livelihoods, and natur ...

Day 1 of the Youth in Landscapes initiative’s workshop, Global Landscapes Forum, Paris Over 600 youth (defined as 18 – 30 years old) have registered to attend this year’s GLF. To put this in perspective: when you look around you at the GLF, almost one in every five delegates will be a student or young […] ...