Blog for People, Food and Nature

A new initiative that launched yesterday aims to spur change in the complex global food system by fostering the growing community of voices on food issues. What’s more, it is attempting to tackle the system as whole, bridging the current ‘silos’, and bringing together the breadth of stakeholders from researchers and the NGO community to […] ...

‘Green Growth’, considered one of the paradigms for a new, more sustainable pattern of development, seeks to achieve a triple win of environmental, economic, and social benefits. In contrast to past modes of economic development, green growth strategies intend to ensure that policies and investments reflect priorities both for reducing poverty and for natural resour ...

As last year came to a close, Oxfam International held a series of online blog discussions on the Future of Agriculture. Over the course of two weeks, professionals from the agricultural development field wrote and commented on various topics from policy to production to indigenous knowledge. The culminating piece, by Roger Thurow of the Chicago […] ...

Happy New Year! As 2013 gets underway we have one more retrospective on the year past. 2012 saw water issues crop up repeatedly. Droughts, flooding, and storms brought the extremes of water availability into focus, and the dependency of agriculture on the resource made it a key sector. Several case studies from landscapes worldwide highlighted […] ...

With the growing role of the private sector in agricultural sustainability and responsible supply chain management, it is increasingly important that there are resources to assist this type of development. One of the really exciting developments over the past year is the emergence of a plethora of new resources and tools to aid in landscape […] ...

While both environmental degradation and food security are issues of concern around the world, considerable attention has fallen on the African continent. It not only houses considerable biodiversity and natural resources, but also human populations suffering most from huner an poverty. Increasingly, donor funds from philanthropic organizations (e.g. Gates Foundation; Rockef ...

Climate change not only poses a serious threat to agricultural production, livelihoods, and natural systems, but also in trying to manage the negative impacts presents an opportunity to rethink the current mode of land management and agricultural development. This was a big year for high-profile collections of high-level experts coming together around the issues of […] ...

Leaders from around the world converged on Nairobi in March to discuss the meaning, merits, and the modality for successful implementation of integrated landscape approaches in agricultural production systems. In those early days of 2012, and the infancy of the Landscapes Blog, a series of thought pieces framed the issues and laid the foundation for […] ...

Nearly a year ago, at the end of January 2012, the Landscapes Blog launched. Over the course of this past year, the Blog has documented the growing recognition of “landscape approaches” among diverse communities of practice and the range of activities that bring together people, food, and nature. Guest authors from the various communities – NGOs, […] ...

As the Landscapes Blog has highlighted topics related to climate change and agriculture, the issue of funding has surfaced a number of times, including a post at the beginning of the month on Navigating Finance for the Farmer. Landscapes Initiative Co-Organizer, The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) posted their take today on the finance roundtable at Agriculture, Landscapes, ...