The demand for biomass for food, feed, fuel, and fibre purposes is ever increasing. Understanding and addressing the multiple challenges, opportunities, and preconditions of sustainable biomass production is essential to achieve sustainable development and should therefore enter the discourse on the…
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A little bit more than a year ago, delegates to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) agreed that they would “strive to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world in the context of sustainable development.” The UN General Assembly, in its adoption of the resolution ‘The future we want’ (A/RES/66/288), on 27 July 2012, supported this ambitious goal. This resolution is a landmark achievement, as it addresses one of the most significant challenges to sustainable development – the loss of fertile soil. […]
This book describes comprehensively potential, co-benefits and drawbacks of carbon (C) sequestration for ecosystem services.
An Usambara Landscape Approach by Judith Rosendahl . September 2014. I found myself in the West Usambara Mountains in North-Eastern Tanzania, a region characterized by high population density, farming on steep mountain slopes, intensive vegetable production in the valley floors,…
The EXPO 2015 will focus on sustainable development with its topic ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life‘. It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in light…
HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON: FOLLOW-UP AND REVIEW OF THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AT THE GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK’S (GLTN) 6TH PARTNERS MEETING Monday 2 November, 2015 at 2‐6pm, UN-Complex Gigiri, Nairobi, Conference Room 1 The Outcome Document of the UN Summit…
The second Global Soil Week 2013 “Losing Ground?”
Collaborative strategies to stop soil and land degradation
Global Soil Forum workshop “Using the Voluntary Guidelines to Secure the Commons” on tenure rights to common lands, fisheries and forests How can land tenure and property rights help us to achieve a world without hunger? To answer this question…