Blog for People, Food and Nature

The city regions approach to building resilient landscapes and food systems presents interesting policy and implementation challenges. And while an increasing number of cities and organizations in the Global North and Global South are collaborating on integrating urban and rural management of food systems, more trainin…

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change - the leading body for the assessment of global climate change - has gained a lot of attention for its strong language and concern about the future of food security and social instability. Scientists from all over the world contributed their findings and…

By Jeffrey A. McNeely Having retired from IUCN in Switzerland and moved back to Thailand (where I started my international conservation work as a Peace Corps Volunteer back in 1968), I found a challenging position: technical advisor to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on helping them p…

The 38th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met from March 25–29, 2014 to complete the Fifth Assessment Report on adaptation, vulnerability and climate change impacts. And, although this extensive report covers a range of topics and geographies, it is also very pertinent to the Landscapes…

The Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals' tenth session opens today to deliberate and negotiate the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. It is not hyperbole to say that their recommendations to the UN General Assembly, set to be delivered in September, will have an enormous impact on the future …

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) acknowledges the fact that climate change is a crosscutting issue with the need for an integrated approach to food security, environmental quality, human welfare and other development goals. Agriculture is uniquely situated between climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, be…