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Watch live from the sidelines of COP20: the largest meeting on the future of our landscapes

Registration has sold out with almost 2,000 people already booked to be there — but you can still watch our live video feed of the biggest gathering of the world’s top experts in forestry, agriculture, science and development: Go to landscapes.org/live for details.

• DG’s BLOG: Is the landscape approach good for forests?
• SPECIAL REPORT: CIFOR news from Lima at blog.cifor.org/lima.
• PHOTO COMPETITION: Vote for your favorite landscape photo submission from around the globe.
• ‘UNRAVELING’ THE LANDSCAPE APPROACH: Are we on the right track? Two experts weigh in.

Insects are an important part of people's diets around the world. In Cameroon, though, people are losing their tastes for beetles thanks in part to Western diets and Western religion. The problem? The beetles thrive in the artificial agricultural environment that local people have made—and so could turn from being a key source of food into an agricultural pest.

Our global call for the most important research questions on forests and landscapes drew more than 2,500 questions from 104 countries. Now, it’s time to narrow them down—and we need your help. Vote now on the most important questions; voting is open to all until mid-December, when the highest-ranking questions will be identified and announced.

In Bolivia, Mother Earth has the right to life—by law. But the landlocked country in the heart of South America is also committed to expanding food production to meet the needs of its growing population, and to using its land and forests for economic growth. Those two goals are on a collision course, according to a new study.