Food, feed, fibre, and bioenergy – the demand for agricultural raw materials is rising. How can additional cultivation areas be reconciled with nature conservation? Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a…

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Planting trees to tackle the impacts of air pollution and climate change – a measure which would appear to suggest

itself. However, scientists warn against negative effects this could have in fragile ecosystems. The…

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The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies – WOCAT – has been promoting sustainable land management (SLM) for nearly three decades. A global database was set up in 1995, underpinned by a standardised…

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Since 2011, the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative has been making the economic case for investing in sustainable land management to prevent and restore soil degradation around the world. For one thing is…

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Restoring land, soils, forests and other ecosystems would contribute more than one-third of the cost-effective climate change mitigation needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C while supporting biodiversity conservation,…

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Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists and experts criticize the outcomes of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, calling for an alternative conservation model that focuses on the rights und needs of Indigenous…

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Africa is by far the most targeted continent for large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs).This study reviews scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in sub-Saharan…

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This background paper highlights the opportunities landscape approaches can bring to rural areas with their ecosystems and communities.

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The ‘Sustainable rural development’ sector project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has brought out two new videos with insights on two important issues in rural development: landscape…

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Drought, fodder scarcity and conflicts over natural resources make life difficult for pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) has taken various measures to improve their food security and…

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