An overview of experiences and potential opportunities. By Tom Griffiths and Lawrence Anselmo.
Sacred natural sites are shown to contain remarkable biodiversity and therefore can make a significant contribution to halting the catastrophic extinction of wild species of plants and animals as well as the decline and damage of habitats and ecosystems.
The 17th issue of Policy Matters, the CEESP peer-reviewed journal, will be released in October at the 10th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan.
Many may not know them, but there are several indigenous communities seeking to revitalize indigenous peoples' food systems and thereby define the food and agriculture of their choice; these are the real champions and stewards of agrobiodiversity.
Several government ministries in Samoa are engaged in a week long gender mainstreaming training this week in the attempt to strengthen their project implementation, particularly renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, and community level interaction.
To introduce the concept of FLR in Ghana, the Government of Ghana supported the establishment of a National Working Group on Forest Landscape in 2004 to develop a National Plan of Action on FLR and encourage innovative restoration efforts. In addition, a National workshop on ITTO guidelines for…
Dans le souci de partager les expériences et développer une stratégie pour la restauration du paysage forestier en Afrique, le Ministère des Ressources Naturelles du Rwanda, l’UICN en collaboration avec l’OIBT et Helpage ont organisé du 8 au 12 juin 2009, un atelier intitulé, «Atelier sous…
The Sangha group is an informal network of managers and researchers working in the Tri National de la Sangha. The Sangha Guidelines will be used as a starting point for an international effort to develop more broadly applicable Guidelines for landscape approaches in other areas. Â
"In this paper, we examine several case studies where participatory system dynamics modeling was applied to environmental management challenges, and explore how it contributed to promoting a landscape approach.
"Community forestry is high on the forest policy agenda in Liberia. However, relatively little is known about the diverse variety of customary forest management institutions and arrangements. Similarly, while the importance of forests and forest products in rural livelihoods is generally…