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Annual report 2019
Forests in a time of crises |
| From the climate crisis to landscape degradation to wildfires, 2019 was a year of great challenges. It was also a time for promising new solutions like the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the merger of CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). Through transformative science, CIFOR-ICRAF projects are generating data and helping to build resilient landscapes and a sustainable future.
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Join thousands of biodiversity experts, scientists, policymakers, journalists, activists, private sector and Indigenous groups at the GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference to learn how the world’s leading organizations are uniting in the wake of COVID-19 to conserve and protect the world’s disappearing biodiversity—from seeds to sea turtles. Held under the theme ‘One World - One Health’, this two-day event will reach tens of millions of people, spotlight ecosystem restoration and contribute to the UN CBD’s Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, making 2020 the super year for nature and biodiversity.
GLF will soon be accepting applications from organizations to host sessions (read about GLF's last conference here).
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Check back here for links to watch.
How is the new digital landscape affecting the way we learn?
17 July @ 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT with World Bank Live’s Brad Simmons and acclaimed author Nicholas Carr.
Examining the intersection of climate justice and racial equity
24 July @ 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CEST with Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash, Ghanaian musician Rocky Dawuni, CIFOR scientist Anne Larson and Salina Abraham.
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| To plant or not to plant |
| Trees, glorious trees. Let’s plant a million, a billion, a trillion or more. Tree planting is growing into a global movement amid efforts to restore ecosystem balance and save the planet from the ravages of climate change. This is what we want, but the simplified concept of “if you need to offset your emissions you plant a tree,” must change. |
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| Transforming Kenya’s invasive ‘mathenge’ bushes into charcoal farms |
| Mathenge (Prosopis juliflora), a shrub that has long caused nightmares for local communities, is providing an alternative source of wood to produce sustainable charcoal while supporting the livelihoods of rural households in drylands, which are hurt by the vagaries of climate change. |
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| Can tree planting save the planet? |
| Join us for a half-day GLF global digital forum on September 29 hosted by CIFOR-ICRAF and Resilient Landscapes to explore what it will take for tree planting ambitions to be beneficial for people and the planet in the long term. Find out how tree planting efforts can be connected to biodiversity and landscape restoration, sustainable economic development and dismantling inequality. Stay tuned for more details. |
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| FORESTS NEWS |
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| Collaborative monitoring for effective forest landscape restoration |
| Crucial to the success of forest landscape restoration is ensuring that the people who live in or near the areas to be restored have a role and a stake in the restoration initiatives. In fact, engaging stakeholders and supporting participatory governance is one of the core principles of forest landscape restoration. |
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| Put forests at the forefront of COVID-19 recovery |
| One of the major problems is food security and the growing human population, said primatologist Jane Goodall. She and Robert Nasi, CIFOR director general, spoke at GLF Bonn about the importance of investing in science, sustainable production, health and food. |
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| Technology transforms study of tree crowns |
| In tropical rainforests trees are surrounded by thick vegetation, so the measurement of tree crowns was difficult and somewhat imprecise. Now, new remote sensing technologies such as satellites and drones offer opportunities for scientists to get close to the canopy, without even setting foot in the forest. |
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| Kenyan farmers adopt new agroforestry strategies |
| Smallholder farmers in the drylands of eastern Kenya are benefiting from innovative farming techniques initially tested in collaboration with World Agroforestry (ICRAF) scientists, development and government partners, which they continue to embrace as an effective way to increase food security. |
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