Blog for People, Food and Nature

Often major international meetings, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, can seem inaccessible and primarily geared toward the experts and high-level figures. The World Wide Views on Biodiversity project is one effort to bring this international conference to the people, or rather to bring the voices of citi…

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, or GIAHS, have been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaption of community with its environment …

The Convention on Biological Diversity commences its 11th Conference of the Parties today to tackle some of the most pressing issues confronting biodiversity today. The press release from the Convention paid particular attention to the issue of financing the actions needed in order to reach some of the biodiversity ta…

Presenting a stark contrast between industrial agriculture and agroecological methods, this infographic developed by the Christensen Fund actually depicts the complexity of agricultural landscapes, as well as the interactions and interdependencies of different land use types.

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. Recentl…

Kathrin Trommler, Project Coordinator with the Ecosystem Services Research Group, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, provides a look into one European agricultural landscape with deep historical roots. Representing a slightly different type of agrobiodiversity than the field crops usually discu…