| Recovery and restoration: Landscapes lead the way
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| As the COVID-19 pandemic continued, landscapes received international attention due to increasing recognition of the interconnectivity between ecosystems, climate change, health and financial wellbeing. Amid economic turbulence, prices crept upward and disparate financial realities in higher and lower income countries became more evident. Vulnerabilities in food systems and distribution chains compounded by fluctuating fuel costs exacerbated the crisis. Major declarations at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow demonstrated a collective recognition and will among world leaders in both the public and private sector of the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions related to agriculture, forestry and other land use, while protecting biodiversity and transforming farming practices to make them more sustainable. A commitment to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 was complemented by other agreements to reduce methane emissions, support smallholder farmers and achieve carbon neutrality. CIFOR-ICRAF scientists continue to produce research results and strategies designed to address these challenges and more.
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| The full implications of the Glasgow leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use agreed at the COP26 summit on climate change are unclear, but the hope is that it will lend support to and accelerate other international agreements designed to conserve and restore forests, ecosystems and biodiversity.
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 We need a politically driven, empirically supported, legally binding and socially inclusive answer to halting forest loss. 
- Managing Director CIFOR-ICRAF, Robert Nasi
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A tree-powered circular bioeconomy
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| Ideally, companies will pollute less and waste fewer materials, eliminating much of the strain that is currently placed on ecosystems through destructive land management practices and over-reliance on non-renewable resources. |
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| Transformative solutions to protect the planet's biodiversity
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| Researchers at the China Programme of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and the Kunming Institute of Botany have published a new paper describing five transformative changes to stabilize and then reverse critical biodiversity losses.
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| From dashed hopes at COP26 to the remarkable rise of sustainable investing, it's been a roller-coaster of a year. Here at the GLF, we hosted three major hybrid and digital conferences, several digital forums, a tech challenge and the launch of new partnerships for land restoration and finance for nature.
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| Memorandum of understanding aims to secure forest wealth, recognizing it is key to Papua New Guinea's economic prosperity and to the country's efforts to contribute to tackling climate change at the global level.
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| FORESTS, TREES AND AGROFORESTRY
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| FTA Highlights series showcases the main findings, results and achievements of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry from 2011 to 2021.
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| Key messages for the U.N. Food Systems Summit |
| Game-changing solutions for the food system already exist. A major summit highlighted how policies must become more integrated. |
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| Nature-based solutions wanted
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| In the middle of the unexpected global storm that the Coronavirus pandemic took us through, the need for more resilient communities, societies, landscapes, became more obvious.
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    
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World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) envision a more equitable world where trees in all landscapes, from drylands to the humid tropics, enhance the environment and well-being for all. CIFOR and ICRAF are CGIAR Research Centers.
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