Past Events

Join us as we work together to strengthen grassroots capacity for locally-led landscape-level sustainable rural development in Africa.

Restoring Africa’s Landscapes: Catalyzing Action from Above and Below Join leaders and policy makers from across Africa, scientists, representatives from corporate and finance sectors, indigenous communities, youth and women’s groups, global media, and tens of thousands around the world participating in the GLF Digital Edition. Network with the people making a difference in improving lives […]

Viewing the earth as the source, not a resource, we will expand ourselves as an enriched community of stakeholders in regenerative action, exploring how to raise consumer understanding and move toward a diverse and inclusive economy that accelerates collaboration, transparency and urgency to heal our earth and ourselves.

Climate Week in New York is packed with meetings and announcements associated with United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. There will be a lot to digest. Our roundtable will review the most significant events related to landscapes and allow a space for us to figure out to most effectively build on this energy.

Advancing learning about innovative models of landscape investment and finance to help unlock the potential for integrated landscape initiatives in the U.S. and Canada.

The Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Help define the most important Decade of the century. Join 500 VIPs, celebrity activists, policy, business and Indigenous leaders, global experts, heads of UN and international agencies and tens of thousands around the world participating in the GLF digital edition. A global consultation in the runup to the official launch […]

Thousands will gather in New Delhi from around the world to unlock opportunities for land restoration and averted degradation Families and communities are breaking up, losing their homes and sources of livelihoods, often from single instances of droughts, flashfloods and forest fires. These negative impacts of unpredictable and extreme climatic conditions are now recurrent, more […]

Towards a Rights-led Transformation of Sustainability On 22-23 June 2019, stakeholders and audiences from across the world will come together in Bonn to zoom in on the transformative role of rights and rights-based approaches for securing a more just, sustainable and prosperous future for all. GLF Bonn 2019 will explore the essential contributions of Indigenous […]

Join us at the 4 World Congress on Agroforestry, and the first to be held in Europe. Hundreds of LPFN partners will be there to discuss, teach, learn, and listen about this critical component of healthy landscapes and key tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The global community faces unprecedented challenges due to climate […]

Amidst mounting challenges posed by climate change, with the urgency for action being ramped up by senior scientists and young students alike, we need to look to and amplify the solutions in our midst.

Should land system science produce a unifying vision for the planet? How do global narratives for use of land correspond to what people want when striving for access to land across diverse and distinctive regions? How can we support transformations that mutually reinforce global sustainability visions and goals, and people’s aspirations and needs? Land system science scholars will be confronting such questions at the fourth Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme (GLP 4th OSM 2019).

True to this year’s theme, ‘Catalyzing Innovation,’ the 20th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, happening in Washington, DC from March 25th to 29th, is an opportunity for over 1,500 participants from governments, academia, civil society, and the private sector to gather and discuss the latest research, institutional innovations and best practices for land governance around the world.

Water touches every corner of our lives, but the scarcity of the precious resource along with environmental degradation and constraints on water quality impose significant threats to our future. In fact, by 2050, over one half of the world’s population could be at risk. In the face of increasing water insecurity, how will we grow enough food to feed and nourish a rapidly growing, urbanizing world?

The third Beating Famine Conference, to be held in Bamako, Mali from the 25th to 28th this February, will focus on the Sahel and will leverage insights on existing restorative practices to inspire a continental movement.

Good Food for People and the Planet Working together towards 2030 Hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica Following the call for action of the Pretoria Resolution, the purpose of the second conference will be to further strengthen multi-stakeholder action, and to trigger increased political commitment for the creation of enabling policy environments, […]

Join us to catch up on and share the most recent developments affecting the implementation and advancement of climate smart landscapes around the world. Amidst mounting challenges posed by climate change, we are asked to do more in terms of mitigation and adaptation with fewer resources. Addressing these challenges is made more difficult by a […]

So much is changing, and needs to change, to make U.S. agriculture climate smart. Join this discussion to hear, and share, the latest developments.

Actors from across a wide diversity of sectors, backgrounds and countries will come together at GLF Bonn 2018 to explore how to move from commitments and pledges on sustainable landscapes to implementation.

Be part of the Inclusive Finance and Business Engagement Pavilion at GLF Bonn 2018! The pavilion will host highly interactive workshops, discussions, and networking events. Meet people from different backgrounds and sectors and engage them in critical conversation on this important topic.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has teamed up with the WWF Landscape Finance Lab (LFL) to present a webinar and learning forum examining how finance can be directed for the benefit of local stakeholders engaged in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR).

For the first time ever, the Quivira Coalition, Holistic Management International, and the American Grassfed Association will collaborate to convene ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, land managers, students, teachers, and others for a three-day conference October 31 to November 2, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to to explore ideas of regeneration.

Building on the engaging discussion forum hosted by The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative at GLF Nairobi on “Engaging the Private Sector in Integrated Landscape Approaches: Cases from the African Landscapes Action Plan”, this digital summit will share additional examples from new geographies, new voices, and new insights to this important topic.

This regional conference will focus on the coordination and promotion of international, national and private sector support for forest and landscape restoration, while paving the way forward for forest and landscape restoration implementation.

This session will focus on how to mobilize private sector partners, from investors (financial firms) to agribusinesses (large and small), in multi-stakeholder partnerships for integrated landscape management. Engaging the private sector is a key action area within the African Landscapes Action Plan (ALAP), which, like AFR100, contributes to the African Resilient Landscapes Initiative (ARLI). Our panel […]

Iniciativa regional de intercambio de conocimientos entre los líderes en el manejo integrado de los paisajes en Mesoamérica | Regional knowledge-sharing initiative among leaders of integrated landscape management in Mesoamerica

Exploring innovative approaches to land governance and property rights in integrated landscape management As integrated landscape management gains momentum as a vehicle through which diverse conservation and sustainable development goals may be realized through multi-stakeholder collaboration in particular places, attention is turning to critical issues around land governance and property rights. Questions arise regarding how […]

A panel of eminent experts will raise key issues in current global capital allocation, pinpoint barriers to shifting that capital to support landscape restoration and regeneration, and highlight the innovative and creative responses of some in the finance industry and elsewhere to overcome those barriers.

This seminar will delve into emerging new messages from the scientific community that should inform the Bank’s upcoming investments. Professor Bob Scholes, co-chair of the assessment, will share key findings, conceptual innovations and solutions against global land degradation.

This course challenges forest and nature management professionals to adopt an integrative perspective, to look beyond the forest, and build bridges between the public and the private sector. In this course we focus on the development of institutional development at landscape level including multi-stakeholder platforms and networks, and financial support mechanisms to guide landscape dynamics on the ground. This course is a co-production of CDI, CIFOR and ICRAF, all having vast experience in landscape and society related research.

This two week course provides you with knowledge, tools and skills to design multiple stakeholder processes in order to deal with conflict, and aim at negotiated outcomes towards positive change. You will apply lessons learnt directly to case studies provided by participants.

View a recap Our sectorally-siloed policy model is no longer working to address today’s challenges for food systems, biodiversity, water, energy, climate, infrastructure and sustainable economies. We must look instead towards integrated, long-term strategies of landscape transformation. Come hear the thought-provoking perspectives and policy insights of Paula Caballero, now Global Director for Climate at World Resources […]

During this course, we will think landscape from a biophysical perspective, taking into account ecological and hydrographical processes defining the biophysical potential of a landscape. But we will also look at landscapes from an economic and a governance perspective. Searching the best options for integrating different land uses require facilitated mediation and negotiation, and participatory and transparent decision making processes. It also demands for collaboration between public and private landscape actors, through the development of novel public-private partnership arrangements at the landscape level.

Join and connect at the world’s largest platform for integrated land use involving all sectors and stakeholders. The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) aspires to create a movement of 1 billion people around sustainable landscapes. By acting together, we can do it.

Join us at the Inclusive Landscapes Finance Pavilion throughout GLF for engaging discussions on all aspects of landscapes finance.

The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, and intentionally feature a focus on local solutions and the interrelated nature of the social and ecological systems that affect food security.

Hunger is on the rise: nutrition needs whole systems solutions.

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is hosting its 4th Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference, which will be held on November 28-30, 2017, is centered around the theme “Catalysing Local Innovations and Action to Accelerate Scaling up of CSA.”

Last month at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and earlier this summer at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, leaders from around the world gathered at the United Nations in New York to review progress and lay out plans for the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). What are […]

Call for abstracts is now open. Abstracts are due June 10. The meeting will offer a unique space for presentations and discussions around forests and livelihoods, and for generating new relationships among those in our field, especially for younger researchers.

“The Green-Blue Nexus: Forests, Landscapes and Services” – The conference will address to what extent and how the status of any forest ecosystem and its temporal dynamics should be included in the overall assessment of ecosystems and their services at larger scales such as landscape scale.

The focus of this event will be on providing knowledge on Sustainable Land and Water Management through an African Network to combat desertification and restore land in Africa. A roundtable discussion and Q&A with participation from the NEPAD Agency, The World Bank, WOCAT, and other TerrAfrica member countries and partners. For event agenda and more […]

The side event will generate recommendations for improved monitoring across multiple goals and commitments, including UNCCD, UNFCCC and UNCBD. Part of UNCCD COP13 Ordos, China, 6-16 September 2017.

Take your leadership skills in integrated landscape approaches to sustainable development, agriculture and climate change to the next level during three intense and rewarding days with EcoAgriculture Partners’ expert trainers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. Become a leader in landscape management. Develop the competencies and confidence to start and manage […]

Resilient African agriculture and food systems: securing prosperity and health for all The Food Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) is pleased to announce the upcoming 2017 Annual High-level Regional Food and Nutrition Security Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue to be held in South Africa from the 15th to 17th August 2017. The Regional Policy Dialogue will be […]

What challenges do businesses face in joining landscape partnerships, and what opportunities do these partnerships provide? Come discuss with us over coffee and a light breakfast in Washington, DC.

A Workshop on the Margins of the UN High Level Political Forum – New York, July 2017

This MOOC starts May 1st and lasts seven weeks. It will introduce areas such as Land Degradation & Restoration, Economics of Land Degradation, 4 returns Approach, Wicked problems, Partnerships and How to Design a Sustainable Business Model.

Inaugural forum will help unleash business opportunities in sustainable landscapes.

On the eve of the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., we invite you to join Andrew Steer, WRI experts and featured guests for a “teach-in” about how climate change is impacting our world and what we can do about it. Throughout our 35-year history, WRI has been using our rigorous, evidence-based approach to explore policies […]

Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised […]

Increasing urbanization poses complex challenges related to food security and access, poverty, nutrition, natural resource management, and health, within both rural and urban areas. City region food systems are vital for strengthening urban-rural linkages and can provide a channel through which these issues can be addressed at a subnational level. How is integrated landscape management […]

The overall aim of the course is to contribute to sustainable resources management by building capacity to manage conflicts over natural resources.

–The African Landscapes Action Plan, Phase 2, is now available– Thanks to all those working to achieve sustainable development, food security and climate resilience in Africa who joined us for this powerful multi-day learning and sharing event. The African Landscapes Dialogue was a major success, with an overflow crowd of more than 140 leaders working across Africa and around […]

Come learn about the latest developments from Marrakesh and discuss how they might impact integrated agricultural landscape management in the future.

Speakers from the financial world will discuss innovations in finance and how they fit in with biodiversity and speakers from the biodiversity world discuss bankable biodiversity models, ecoagriculture and natural capital accounting.

Under the banner, “Feeding Public Policies” we seek to open a space for international debate and alliance building in order to promote public policies that contribute to food sovereignty.

The Global Landscapes Forum: Climate Action for Sustainable Development will bring together nearly 500 experts and leaders – and thousands more online – in Marrakesh on 16 November to act against climate change.

Convened by the The Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative, The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Morocco and The Livelihoods Funds, this interactive side-event with high-level speakers from the public sector, international organisations, business leaders and civil society will put attention on building better public-private partnerships for African agriculture.

This interactive session at the Global Landscapes Forum in Marrakech will identify the current impediments to implementing landscape approaches and begin to develop the solutions for overcoming these impediments.

Save-the-date for this high level annual Summit on sustainability in a Post-2015 world. This meeting will discuss global action around the Sustainable Development Goals, and what is in store for the years to come.

The World Resources Institute invites you to join them for a brief presentation and an engaging discussion over dinner to explore what transformative adaptation means in the context of the agriculture sector.

An invite-only event alongside the UN Climate Talks in Marakkesh will focus on the implementation of the Adaptation of African Agriculture initiative launched by the Moroccan Government.

A side event to share experience and discuss how developing countries can take advantage of technology transfer support available through the CTCN.

Join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a live discussion with World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, WRI’s Robert Winterbottom and other experts on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – a key strategy for restoring degraded lands, achieving food security, and enriching rural areas.

Join actors from government, private sector, NGOs and international organisations to explore innovative ways to use blended finance to create mutual value for smallholder farmers, investors and off-takers in complex agricultural landscapes. The Stakes There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, most of whom are subsistence farmers facing economic and social constraints as […]

This webinar will explore the crucial question of whether land tenure is the key to smallholder development – and if so – what the role of companies should be in resolving land issues in their supply chain?

Gain the skills to design and implement the next generation of integrated natural resource management programs.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released six regional reports containing detailed examinations of the environmental issues affecting each of the world’s regions: North America, the Pan-European region, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa. Together, these comprehensive assessments will provide the foundation for the sixth iteration of […]

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is pleased to invite delegates to the 2016 ECOSOC High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development  to its side-event “Leaving no one behind in food security and nutrition governance : the inclusive process and policy tools of the  Committee on World Food Security”, on Friday 15th July 1:15-2:30pm in the […]

A three day conference exploring the Sustainable Development Goals.

Helping countries meet their global goals for restoring degraded landscapes Mr. Doug McGuire, Coordinator of FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism and of the Action Against Desertification project, will talk about how FAO is facilitating country efforts to bring back to a productive state their degraded ecosystems and how these efforts are achieving the Bonn […]

The Korean network on Ecosystem Services (KESNET), together with the Ecosystem Services Partnership and many Asian partners, is organizing this training to “Reconnect People with Ecosystems to achieve Nature-based Solutions for Environmental and Socio-economic Problems.”

An invitation-only gathering of a group of food and agriculture business and sustainability leaders to explore effective collaborations in production landscapes.

The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) will convene for the second time in May 2016.

Informal stakeholder briefing with Mr Thomas Hofer, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat.

The Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation is offering a new international course on landscape governance, in Indonesia, on 4th-15th of April 2016. This course challenges participants to integrate inclusive decision making at the landscape level. Scholarships are available for those who apply before October 20th, 2015.

In commemoration of World Earth Month, a panel of experts will discuss specific SDGs, such as water and health; regional perspectives and how they can be accomplished in the 2030 timeframe; and the role of the public and private sectors.

The event will bring together stakeholders to confirm commitments to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to discuss emerging applications in agri-food research and innovation.

The conference theme was: Scaling up Responsible Land Governance and will pay special attention to working at scale, mainstreaming innovations and sustaining investments for greater impact.

The Restoration Diagnostic is a structured method for identifying which key success factors for forest landscape restoration are already in place, which are partially in place, and which are missing within a country or landscape that has restoration opportunities.

The Forum is rooted in and aims to strengthen effective partnerships and collaborations between IFAD and Farmers’ Organizations (FOs) in country programmes and investment projects as well as building their capacity and engaging in policy dialogue initiatives.

There is a high potential for conflict caused by climate change in both urban and rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This panel discussed some of the solutions proposed by African countries at the recently concluded COP 21 Conference in Paris to adapt to and mitigate the evolving situation.

This short conference allowed the Eastern Neighbourhood Partnership Countries and Russia to present its activities and its insight on the follow-up of the Paris Conference.

Urbanisation is changing the structure of cities and countrysides. In order to feed people fleeing to cities, rural areas must be vibrant and capable of not only supplying nutritious food but also of delivering that to nearby cities. Agricultural policy needs to consider the nuances of structural change in rural and urban areas, and regard the development of these regions as two side of the same coin.

The 2015 Global Landscapes Forum is the leading platform for bringing together individuals and organizations that have an impact on land use. The event is expected to be the largest meeting on the sidelines of the UNFCCC COP21

An international training course towards supporting sustainable and inclusive entrepreneurship at a landscape level.

Decision-makers from 195 member states will attend COP12 to discuss solutions to issues related to desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD).

At this October’s COP12 meeting, there will be a morning series on ecosystem and landscape approaches to relieving, and reversing land degradation in dry, forested areas. On October 14th, EcoAgriculture Partners and the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative will speak to financing landscape approaches. These meetings are available to those are present in the UNCCD COP12 meeting.

This event aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative methods arising from research in a wide range of disciplines on achieving global food security whilst reconciling demands on the environment.

Agriculture, forestry and land use are integral to the planning of landscape interventions. This online event and e-course is an opportunity to share your experiences and learn from the experts how to monitor the impacts, in green house gas emissions, from activities in agricultural systems.

Natural capital (biodiversity and ecosystems is at the center of all environmental and business operations around the world. This forum is designed to initiate a constructive dialogue concerning the value of natural capital and inclusive sustainable development in African countries.

This unprecedented event will be a venue for producers and consumers to come together and celebrate the cadre of people embracing the holistic paradigm shift in ecology, health, and diet. From gauchos, Masai, cowboys to grassland leaders, those who have built their livelihood on fostering an intimate relationship with the land will discuss the role of agriculture in environmental and human health.

Leaders from governments, civil society, business and international organizations will meet at this high-level event that will provide a platform to focus international attention on the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships that work across regions and at multiple scales to achieve collective impact through agenda-setting, policy change, communications and on-the-ground implementation.

Launching the book Steps Toward Green, a collaborative study on agricultural commodity landscapes and environmental policy in East and Southeast Asia, with a presentation by two of the co-authors Steven Jaffee (World Bank) and Sara Scherr (EcoAgriculture Partners), and a panel of eminent reviewers, followed by audience discussion.

Talking about Forests in Durban, South Africa The major themes of the XIV World Forestry Congress (WFC), 7-11 September 2015, are: People-centred forestry Socioeconomic issues  Forests and forestry in national economic development. Convened by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and hosted in Durban by the Government of South Africa, the Congress will […]

An international training course towards innovative arrangements for inclusive decision making at landscape level.

This symposium will bring together experts from around the world to share experiences and discussion concerning honey bee breeding, genetics and physiology, honey bee diseases and pests, impacts of environmental stressors on bees, conservation, ecosystems services, and bee policy.

The first in a TerrAfrica-NEPAD Webinar Knowledge Exchange Series on Sustainable Land Management.

RE-imagining Africa Food Security through Harnessing Ecosystem based Adaptation (EBA) Approaches Now and Into the Future #EBAFOSC

Without integration and coordination, finance for sustainable development will miss the mark. Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) – an approach in which a group of stakeholders in a given landscape collaborate to achieve landscape scale outcomes that are critical for each of the individual stakeholders – is the key to that coordination at the most effective scale.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are excited to present their side event titled “Food and Farming under climate change: Moving towards a global agreement”, to be held in association with the International Scientific Conference Our Common Future under Climate Change. Register for the event here. Space is […]

Short summer workshop addresses the the key aspects of ‘landscape governance’, which requires an integrated approach that involves relevant actors from different stakeholder groups, including governments, nongovernmental organisations, private land owners, and private companies and their investors.

Join World Resources Institute for a discussion featuring the keynote presentation “Agricultural Research on Adaptation to Climate Change” by Dr. François Houllier, the President of INRA (the French National Institute for Agricultural Research).

A two-day invitation-only event designed to convene the world’s leading thinkers, experts from investment banks, development banks, pension funds and corporate entities with senior government officials, to create hub for knowledge exchange around innovative solutions to finance.

Bringing together leaders from the learning landscapes in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania to exchange knowledge and experiences on integrated landscape management (ILM) and to learn about tools to enhance their implementation of ILM.

Rural areas are facing their traditional isolation, weakness and vulnerability in new ways. This conference would like to invite to critical debate about all these changes.

Launching the report Scaling Up Regreening: Six Steps to Success by the World Resources Institute

In the second in the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature-led series of Kenya landscape dialogues, landscape leaders gather to report back on lessons learned since the last meeting and focus on building a shared agenda for the future of the Kenya Learning Landscape Network.

Exchanging knowledge and experiences on land and soil issues and raising public awareness on the importance of soils globally, to influence land and soil policies for sustainable development.

Building Tomorrow’s Research Agenda and Bridging the Science-Policy Gap

Launching the new program strategy for the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative.

On the sidelines of December’s UN climate talks in Lima (COP20), CARE International, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) will host a seminar to raise awareness about and discuss approaches to help address climate change challenges to food and nutrition security.

Countries are forging a successor to the Kyoto Protocol under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and, in parallel, designing a set of Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals. Connecting these two processes and multifunctional landscapes is vital if we are to overcome the complex challenges common to everyone on the planet.

This session during the Global Landscapes Forum is organized by the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, together with the Ministry of the Economic Affairs of The Netherlands, Hivos International, and Rainforest Alliance.

A High-Level Session at the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum.

Tackling the Complex Challenge of Climate Change Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice is an incredible collection of 27 chapters, prepared by 86 authors from 44 institutions led by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). The book draws strongly on case studies, methods, tools and considerations for achieving multiple climate, social, development and environmental objectives; especially with regard […]

This session will feature summaries of lessons learned so far from the analysis and experiences of SfL and LPFN case studies of multi-stakeholder led, integrated landscape initiatives and suggested pathways for the replication and scaling up of these efforts.

To celebrate World Food Day 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with The National Geographic Society, will be organizing a discussion on “Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth – Family Farming in the 21st Century”

Food and nutrition security in the context of rapid global urbanization, especially in developing countries, has brought attention to the consequent rural impacts and the importance of sustainable food systems. Today, it is increasingly realised that City Region Food Systems can play an important part in helping to provide for many peoples’ food security and nutrition.

The CGIAR Development Dialogues is an invitation only, high-level, one-day event intended to focus global attention on the vital role of agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries, landscapes, and food systems in achieving sustainable development. Linking key and innovative research in agriculture specifically to the emerging United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the event will feature lively high-level panel debates among leading scientists, Heads of State, prominent private sector players, philanthropic organizations, and prestigious academic institutions.

The seventh annual Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) will explore the use of the ecosystem services concept at a local level.

Competing for natural resources in changing peri-urban landscapes

Leading minds from African government, research, civil society and the private sector will gather in Nairobi to generate an ambitious agenda to enhance and scale effective integrated landscape initiatives for Africa.

Visiting integrated landscape management initiatives in Kenya’s Kikuyu Escarpment Forests and the Great Rift Valley.

Coming together to create integrated solutions to complex problems in Kenyan landscapes

The debut of the landmark report, Financing Strategies for Integrated Landscape Investment, at World Resources Institute.

Leaders of landscape initiatives from around the world come together online to share their experiences and ideas about ways to build a shared framework and action strategy for realizing multiple performance objectives from landscape management.

Landscapes are complex entities that require extensive stakeholder coordination to realize the four goals of ecological conservation, agricultural production, livelihood security, and institutional capacity. To encourage this coordinated action, the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative engages landscapes in Focal Landscape Dialogues. These Dialogues bring together stakeholders from multiple sectors to reflect on the state of their landscape and identify ways to scale-up their impact. The Maasai Steppe Heartland Focal Landscape Dialogue utilized participatory methods of analysis and action planning. The stakeholders selected integrated planning, education and awareness as priority areas of landscape innovation to consider further in scaling-up impact in the landscape.

The first ever Global Landscapes Forum succeeded in connecting stakeholders from different land-use sectors and facilitating dialogue in a way rarely seen before

LPFN holds first online event for Learning Landscapes.

First Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Landscape Dialogue in Lari County explores goals and how to achieve them.

The Forum, designed to craft an innovative agenda to scale-up integrated landscape management in diverse landscapes and multiple countries around the world, catalyzed the formation of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative.

A 60 minute story of how one man rose, against all odds, to save his community from the brink of extinction. At a time of violent conflict in Ethiopia, Aba Hawi, mobilized his community to restore degraded landscapes, leading them away from starvation and towards secure livelihoods. This documentary showing will take place in Washington, D.C. and will feature a Q&A with the Associate Producer.

This high level side event will showcase experiences of countries that will be the first movers on internalizing the SDGs. It will highlight outstanding issues, commonalities and differences among member states’ experiences thus far, and spur reflection on the challenges and opportunities of SDG implementation.

This COP12 side-event will focus on how the Global South can better support knowledge exchange for building decision-making capacities and leveraging investments in sustainable land management. This dialogue is an opportunity for FAO and WOCAT partners to present the preliminary idea of a South-South Initiative for landscape restoration to interested parties.

WRI, IUCN, and the Secretariat for the Convention on Biodiversity Conservation (CBD) will feature multiple sessions on land restoration, steps for regreening degraded lands, social programming for ecosystem and biodiversity restoration, and African land restoration initiatives. Join the Rio Pavilion for this celebration of innovations, and outlook for progress, in Ecosystem Restoration.

Join Maryam Niamir-Fuller of UNEP in a conversation, moderated by Initiative secretariat chairperson Sara Scherr, on how to connect investors with stakeholders to generate the highest social and environmental outcomes in a landscape. This forum highlights opportunities for investors interested in integrated landscape approaches, innovative finance mechanisms and how to structure finance to achieve the SDGs.

Join the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative at the Global Landscapes Forum in a day of interactive exhibits, exhilarating discoveries and applicable lessons for advancing the SDGs through the landscape approach.

Seeking a national transformation, steeped in the Sustainable Development Goals When the world called to end poverty, Japan rose to the occasion. With an analysis of how to move social and economic goals forward, the country’s Ministry of the Environment is interested in applying this knowledge to the recently announced goals for development in a Post-2015 […]

The world’s cities are growing, and so is food insecurity. There is a dire need to build food systems where farmlands are connected to markets in local cities. This symposium discusses strategies to bridge the gap from rural-urban areas to build food security in the urban world.

Maria Ghiso, Education Program Manager, will discuss the Rainforest Alliance’s work in Mexico to prepare the next generation of community leaders and environmental stewards to confront the challenges of climate change. As manager of the education program, Ghiso has developed educational tools that feature global case studies of sustainability and are available for free on the Rainforest Alliance Learning Site.

A number of tricky issues arise when considering the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture and ways to accelerate uptake in the light of what appear to be accelerating climate change, population growth and other challenges. This panel will discuss four important questions on Climate-Smart Agriculture.

The session will address opportunities for, and challenges to, landscape management, and will stimulate a constructive science-policy-practice discourse on the potential of labelling related to landscape management for sustainable rural development and heritage in the EU.

Join us for the next Landscape Roundtable convened by FAO and EcoAgriculture Partners to reflect upon the achievements and lessons learned from the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LPFN) initiative, which began in 2012 and officially closes this year. The LPFN initiative has been an international collaboration of knowledge sharing, dialogue and action to support integrated landscape management in order to achieve three simultaneous goals: improved food production, ecosystem conservation and sustainable livelihoods.