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01 March 2018 Uganda
The main aim of introducing oil palm on islands in Lake Victoria is laudable - to provide cash incomes to impoverished rural people and to improve the national economy. But do these two objectives go hand in hand?
10 January 2018 the Netherlands
Main outcomes of a successful session at the Global Landscapes Forum 2017
13 December 2017 the Netherlands
In any landscape, the interests of stakeholders can both connect and conflict, often at the same time. Landscape governance relates to how various interests in the landscape are balanced in decision making and how the rules stimulate the sustainable management of the landscape resources. To achieve sustainable landscape development, it is therefore key to understand how governance processes are organized, and how this influences the decisions and behaviour of the actors in the landscape.
12 December 2017 the Netherlands
On 19 and 20 December, the Global Landscapes Forum 2017 will take place in Bonn, Germany. The forum is the world’s largest platform for integrated land use involving all sectors and stakeholders, come and join us.
04 December 2017 the Netherlands
This conference was held from 20 to 22 November in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar with the main theme “From users to producers: Scaling up FFPOs business to implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in climate resilient landscapes”. A preceding three-day exchange trip involved 57 of the conference participants in a visit to the Wuyan community forest and associated rattan business and planned sawmill in Wiang Maw Township, Kachin State. This led into the conference itself which involved two days of discussion sandwiching a field trip to the model Yoe Sone community forest with its Sterculia resin enterprise in Wun Dwin Township, Mandalay State.
25 September 2017 Nigeria
In Nigeria and specifically in Cross River State, large scale land acquisition, much of it for new oil palm plantations, has strong social and environmental impacts.