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15 December 2014 the Netherlands
Tropenbos International, the AgriCultures Network and the Forest and Farm Facility, created a space so voices from the fields and forests could be heard at the Global Landscapes Forum, Lima, Peru, on 6-7th December 2014. And they spoke.
15 December 2014 Ghana
Investment costs for purchasing legal logs, irregular supply from concession holders and competition from illegal chainsaw milling activities are the three major challenges confronting artisanal millers piloting the artisanal milling concept in the Akrodie and Sankore communities of the Goaso Forest District.
08 December 2014 Colombia
Abel Rodríguez, an elder of the Nonuya people, an indigenous group from the middle Caquetá River in Colombia, will receive the 2014 Principal Prince Claus Award on 10 December from HRH Prince Constantijn for his knowledge as a plant expert, his outstanding artworks and his contribution to the understanding of the Amazonian ecosystem.
05 December 2014 the Netherlands
The landscape approach has increasingly been promoted as a new perspective on addressing global challenges at a local level. In the face of increasing and competing claims to the land and the exhaustion of natural resources, planners, scientists and policymakers have come to realize the limitations of sectoral approaches. Integrated landscape level considerations have begun to supersede those restricted to, for instance, water, forests, farming and development programmes.
04 December 2014 Colombia
Traditional knowledge holders travel through the territory using mental maps and recitations of each place. Each recitation starts in the mouth of the Amazon and reaches their place of birth and settlements covering an extended portion of the Amazon rainforest.
03 December 2014 Ghana
Ghana is the world’s second producer of cocoa but the productivity and quality of cocoa and farming systems are decreasing. Producers and others involved in the cocoa commodity chain are concerned about the future of cocoa supplies given the uncertainty on the quality and quantity of cocoa. Cocoa farmers are concerned about their income because of the decreasing yields and the fluctuating price of cocoa on the world market. And biodiversity is at stake due to expansion of the cocoa area at the cost of remaining forests and the removal of trees from farms. On the positive side, Ghana’s government has the intention to prevent further forest conversion to cocoa farming, the intention is to intensify cocoa production while restoring forest cover.