TIOGO, Burkina Faso (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While visiting a portion of the Tiogo forest in the center west of Burkina Faso recently, Louis Ouédraogo couldn’t hide his wrath. Someone had entered the forest and cut down the two hectares worth of trees to plant millet as the rainy season approached.
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun. 10, 2014 – BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — Inspired by the 30th anniversary of the devastating Ethiopian famine, the World Vision garden celebrates the transformation there – especially in the famine-hit Antsokia Valley, once a barren dust-bowl, and now a thriving oasis that exports food.
9 June 2014: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released the report of the first Global Landscapes Forum. The report focuses on four themes: investing in sustainable landscapes, landscape policy and governance, synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation, and landscapes for food security and nutrition.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1qtaKTF
9 June 2014: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released the report of the first Global Landscapes Forum. The report focuses on four themes: investing in sustainable landscapes, landscape policy and governance, synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation, and landscapes for food security and nutrition.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1qtaKTF
EverGreen Agriculture works to mitigate and adapt to the effects that climate change bring to farmer societies. Lynne Featherstone gave an inspiring closing adress to this meeting on the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability for agriculture, jobs and food security.
For Journalists – A new guide by the World Agroforestry Centre will assist with training farmers to implement Conservation Agriculture with Trees.
This brief from the Stockholm Environment Institute examines how agroforestry approaches – growing trees with crops, and sometimes with animals – can advance land restoration and conservation while also strengthening livelihoods.
