Blog for People, Food and Nature

With less than a week to go until the Convention on Biological Diversity begins, biodiversity is definitely the topic on hand, and the focus of the Landscapes Blog for the past few weeks. However, assessing risks to biodiversity and ecosystems from business ventures has not been given its spot in the limelight. Recently as part […] ...

Set at the last Convention on Biological Diversity, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets set goals out to the year 2020. A new report released by the IUCN and United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre addresses Target 11 – properly conserving 17 percent of terrestrial ecoregions and 10 percent of marine ecoregions by 2020. One of […] ...

With a focus on biodiversity in the lead up to the CBD next month, this week the Landscapes Blog takes a closer look at the motivations behind conserving the ecosystem services provided by agricultural landscapes. A pilot project in Uganda, just entering its initial stages, is seeking to assess the effectiveness of incentive payments as […] ...

Back at the beginning of September, around 400 participants convened in Vietnam, representing more than 150 countries, and including at least half of developing country ministries of agriculture. The Global Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Change Conference held in Hanoi was convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Socialist Republic of [&hell ...

2012 is coming to a close with some fanfare, and major events on the horizon provide exciting opportunities to give voice to the nexus of sustainable agriculture, conservation, and rural livelihoods. The 11th Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP11), occurring every other year, takes place from 8-19 October in Hyderabad, […] ...

Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Co-Organizer, Bioversity International has been participating in the  IUCN World Conservation Congress,  in Korea. Emile Frison, Director General, Bioversity International participated in the session: ‘From Competition to Collaboration between Agriculture and Conservation. In a blog post originally on the Bioversity ...

One of the themes of the IUCN World Conservation Congress is Nature+Food. The World Leaders Dialogue on the topic this past Saturday set out to address the overarching question, ‘can we feed a growing population in a sustainable manner?’ The discussion centered largely around agricultural production, with broad-brush strokes on topics like livestock and changing [&h ...

Moving rapidly from climate change and agriculture, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress began yesterday morning in Jeju, South Korea. With this year’s theme ‘Nature +’ the Congress is looking beyond conservation and environmental protection, to the interplay between human needs and activities and the natural world ...

Discussions this week at the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change are highlighting the importance of climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts to be integrated into agricultural development strategies. As a consensus seems to be forming around the importance of this integration, attention will need to shift to the mechanisms by which [&helli ...

In preparation for the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Change taking place in Hanoi this week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released a background paper on recent experiences with climate-smart agriculture. In particular, it highlights the necessary elements for implementing a climate-smart strategy, including the ...