Blog for People, Food and Nature

By Ibrahim Thiaw, Director of the Division of Environmental Policy Implementation United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya It is very likely that by 2050 the planet’s population will have passed 9 billion people. The question we are all asking is how to feed them when it is already a challenge with our cu…

One goal of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is to amass the evidence base for integrated agricultural landscapes from diverse disciplinary and sectoral perspectives. This Global Review will be oriented around a set of eight Key Questions, the answers to which will be critical to management, polic…

By Ann Tutwiler, Deputy Director General of Knowledge Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy  Integrated agricultural landscape approaches have shown considerable promise in simultaneously meeting goals for food production, ecosystem health, and human wellbeing. However, the evidence bas…

By Dr. Emile Frison, Director General Bioversity International, Rome, Italy In recent years, evidence has been accumulating about the need for change in agriculture. The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development report, the 2010 report to the UN by the Special Rapporteu…

[caption id="attachment_264" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Trees transform degraded land in Cameroon and Tanzania"][/caption] By Dr. Tony Simons, Director General World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya The answer to the question “what is a landscape?” differs tremendously depending on the respondent. To…

By: Mr. Kazuhiko Takemoto, Senior Fellow and Program Director United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative, Yokohama, Japan The recent birth of the world’s seven billionth person in October 2011 was just the latest in a series of wake-up calls to the g…