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Growing Together:
5 Areas of Impact

This has been a year of incredible growth as the GLF has continued to work with new chapters, share powerful stories and widen our available tools and resources for those involved in landscape action.  

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Growing Together:
5 Areas of Impact

1. Landscape champions

2. AI FOR GOOD

3. Knowledge IS POWER

4. REWARDING NATURE

5. CELEBRATING YOU

1. Landscape champions

2. AI FOR GOOD

3. Knowledge is power

4. rewarding nature

5. celebrating you

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2024

Landscape
Champions

So, who are
landscape champions?

At the GLF, landscape champions are those who dedicate themselves to the conservation and protection of natural ecosystems. They uplift their local communities, educate those around them, and fight to preserve the integrity of nature. 

Landscape champions are the dozens of locally-led organizations that have become GLFx chapters and the Restoration Stewards working tirelessly to conserve and protect their local ecosystems. They are activists, photographers, writers, planters, brave-hearted individuals and organizations.

Restoration
Stewards 2024

8 women with
a new vision for Earth

This year 10 new organizations joined as GLFx chapters!

Storytelling
Contest Winners

6 Peatland
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The Invisible Corridor – Where Nature and People Grow

Photography Awards winners

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AI for good?

Yes, we might be tree huggers, but we’re also up to speed on AI! This year, the GLF was a part of many conversations about the impact and benefits of using AI to help quickly compile and analyze landscape data and remove knowledge barriers.

At GLF Africa, conversations focused on ways to train AI models with agricultural data from Africa.
Later, reshaping nature finance took center stage at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, followed by recognition of the amounting innovations of AI in finance at this year’s Biodiversity COP16.

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Automation potential for conserving biodiversity

How AI is transforming conservation

Will AI feed Africa?

A green leap in the AI era: Pathways for scaling food systems in Africa

How is AI revolutionizing nature finance?

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knowledge
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We know that knowledge is key to positive change. Our Knowledge Hub is where we share publications, interviews, infographics and more.

This year, the Knowledge Hub published over 150 publications – and that’s just scratching the surface!

ThinkLandscape is our platform for everything from local stories like climate-proofing potatoes in Peru to global conversations on food waste and light pollution. We aim to share stories that inspire action toward a greener planet.

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All you need to know about peatlands in 2025

Peatlands can store an incredible amount of carbon unless they are exploited. This year at GLF Peatlands we explored how we can better gather data, map, and work together to protect these ecosystems.

Co-creating restoration education courses

We work with leading universities to integrate landscape restoration in curriculums and programs across Africa. This year we implemented four courses on restoration education in Ghana, Nigeria and Rwanda. Partnership in Asia are on the horizon!

Building a greener and resilient future in Africa by 2030

This year’s GLF Africa highlighted 6 ways to accelerate landscape restoration and implement integrated landscape management in the next 6 years.

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We have launched our Digital Campus – a space where you can take online courses, access resources and engage with a landscape community.

New Digital Campus

We’ve also updated our Landscape Academy. So whether you are a scientist, landscape leader or academic, you can use this platform to learn more about designing workshops and facilitating dynamic landscape restoration.

Landscape Academy

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3 top stories

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What is light pollution?

Agroecology aids floods in Brazil

What can tradition teach us about architecture?

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SUSTAINABLE FINANCE: REWARDING NATURE

In 2024 we’ve had lengthy discussions about sustainable finance and how it can fund green transitions for local landscape organizations and nationwide policies. 

At our 7th Investment Case Symposium hot topics included biodiversity and carbon credits as well as incentivizing valuing nature. 

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“Restoration should not be perceived as a cost; it needs to be perceived as an investment because the cost of not doing it will be much higher,” said Fabiola Marono Zerbini, director of Brazil’s Forestry Department.

Building a path to finance the biodiversity framework

Financing solutions that prize biodiversity must include partnerships across private and public sectors, lowering investment risk and amping accessibility for local and Indigenous communities.

What are biodiversity credits, and how do they work?

Investors can channel private investments into preserving, conserving or restoring biodiversity by buying biodiversity credits.

Making climate and biodiversity finance work for people

Speakers at GLF Africa discussed national strategies and financial pathways to restore land while best supporting vulnerable communities.

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Celebrating YOU!

It’s time to give yourself a round of applause. Many of you have engaged with our GLF Live videos, joined hybrid conferences, a media seminar or a film festival, tuned into our podcast episodes and watched our Instagram vlogs and takeovers.

In 2024, we’ve also strengthened connections by adding 10 new GLFx chapters and sponsoring 7 new restoration stewards. We’re also proud to work with two new Charter Members: the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and SouthSouthNorth (SSN). 

You give meaning to our mission: “Connect, share, learn, act.” Thank you!

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The conference GLF Africa explores how the continent can revitalize its ecosystems for future generations – and set an example for the world to follow

Nairobi, Kenya (17 September 2024) – As the world prepares for the 2024 United Nations conferences on climate, biodiversity and desertification, Africa is taking center stage in efforts to restore degraded landscapes, protect biodiversity and build sustainable livelihoods for its citizens.

The GLF Africa 2024 Hybrid Conference: Greening the African Horizon, held in Nairobi and online by the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), convened thousands of participants from local communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth leaders and policymakers to scientists, innovators and private-sector actors across the globe to showcase Africa’s immense potential to construct a resilient, equitable future through its landscapes.

“Together, we have the power to green Africa and beyond – for securing livelihoods, food security, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation. Land and community are the common denominators for achieving these goals. Though the climate crisis presents immense challenges, Africa holds immense potential of rich local and Indigenous knowledge, innovative solutions, youth leaders, brilliant minds and emerging technologies,” said Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Director General of ICRAF.

A showcase for African innovation

Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program, a new framework is now being piloted in India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria and Vietnam to accelerate sustainable production, restore ecosystems and alleviate pressure on forests. This framework brings together experts and landscape actors to explore integrated landscape management and its impact on smallholder farmers and food value chains.

“As we bring in new tools and approaches, we should look at how best to integrate them into the existing functional systems so that we don’t start from zero or distort what is ongoing on the land. We don’t want to work in isolation; we want to strengthen that system,” said Elijah Mboko, National Technical Specialist at FAO Kenya.

By integrating local knowledge with cutting-edge technology and the latest science, the GLF is creating an AI hub to promote community-driven AI solutions that challenge the status quo. It will connect landscape actors and create interdisciplinary alliances to foster collaboration, innovation and inclusive knowledge.

“We need to design systems that are appropriate for the context of Africa. We need data from the places that we’re trying to understand to build better models. Let’s say, for western Kenya, we need a context-aware model that can interpret intercropping in small-scale practices,” said Catherine Nakalembe, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland and Africa Program Director at NASA Harvest.

A key aspect of restoring forests is planting trees, which in turn requires effective tree seed and seedling delivery systems. At a session hosted by CIFOR-ICRAF titled “A transformative partnership platform for tree seed and seedling delivery systems,” panelists and participants explored some of the major challenges in tree planting, including a lack of technical capacity and stakeholder coordination. They emphasized the need to develop a market for demand-driven native tree species, to engage communities through participatory approaches and to share knowledge and resources broadly through stakeholder networks such as the nascent Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP).

Africa’s future is present

Africa’s population boom has been well documented, and speakers emphasized the importance of ensuring that this young demographic plays an active role in shaping the continent’s future.

“70% of the African population is under the age of 35. Youth make up a very important and critical mass of the population. The biodiversity and climate crisis requires a whole-of-society approach – everyone must take action,” said Simangele Msweli, Senior Manager for the Youth Leadership Program at the African Wildlife Foundation.

“Africa is a land of opportunities. Africa is a land of culture with enormous potential for wealth and abundance. If so, we can only say that we have succeeded when the least of us is listened to, taken care of and not left behind,” said writers and activists Felicity Asiibi Akwa and Taiye Owo in unison during a spoken-word performance.

“There is a need to decolonize how we do climate justice and land restoration. Whatever has happened on other continents, whatever the donors and the granters are saying might not be the solution for Africa. There is a need for Africa to come up with African solutions. There is a need for women to be involved in coming up with solutions to land issues that are upon them,” said Deborah Oyugi, English Countries Manager and Safeguarding Lead at Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (Yilaa)

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NOTES TO EDITORS

• For more information, additional quotes, guidance on the topics addressed at the conference, access the GLF Africa 2024 recordings and to arrange interviews with speakers or hosting organizations, contact Kelly Quintero (k.quintero@cifor-icraf.org).
• Visit the GLF Africa 2024 Flickr album. We will share more images soon.
• Find tools for journalists in the event’s newsroom.

About the GLF 

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, connecting people with a shared vision to create productive, profitable, equitable & resilient landscapes. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Centre (CIFOR-ICRAF), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank, and its charter members. Learn more at www.globallandscapesforum.org. 

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This is the guiding principle for GLFx Nairobi. Founded in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in 2020, we are a knowledge hub and a community of individuals passionate about restoring Kenya’s landscapes. 

We have realized that knowledge sharing to foster behavior change must always precede environmental intervention. This has defined our approach to our latest project in the Oloolua Forest. 

Dubbed the lungs of Nairobi, the Oloolua Forest is an urban forest ecosystem that covers over 618 hectares across the outskirts of Nairobi.

The forest is a crucial biodiversity hotspot and wildlife refuge in the highly urbanized environment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area. Gazetted in 1932 as two blocks of over 600 hectares, the forest has since been fragmented into eight blocks to give way to infrastructure projects including roads and the Kenya Standard Gauge Railway.

The forest faces the continued challenges of encroachment and land-grabbing for the development of high-value private homes. The Kenya Forest Service, which manages the forest, works alongside community forest associations and nonprofits such as Friends of Oloolua Forest to conserve and protect the forest.

With support from the Global Landscapes Forum’s GLFx network, GLFx Nairobi is currently carrying out a project aimed at restoring the Oloolua Forest with a specific focus on promoting community-based partnerships for ecosystem restoration. 

Environmental intervention programs often lean towards isolationism in conservation. This is the urge to fence off a threatened ecosystem and keep it free of human encroachment, in hopes that the system will recover.

While this approach has its place, particularly in critically endangered ecosystems, it falls flat in an urban landscape. 

In 2023, for example, at the height of a severe five-month drought, Maasai pastoralists drove over 10,000 herds of cattle into the Oloolua Forest in search of pasture.

While this in itself isn’t strange, as Nairobi is part of the ancestral home of the Maasai community, the cattle ended up destroying over 20,000 trees that had been planted through forest rehabilitation efforts.

The question then becomes: how do we marry the needs of the community and restoration efforts? 

Through the Restore Oloolua Forest project, GLFx Nairobi envisions the restoration of the Oloolua Forest through multi-stakeholder collaboration and using the forest in multiple ways such as promoting ecotourism, collecting firewood for community benefit and reliably sourcing water for local provisions.

Although deforestation is among the greatest sources of carbon emissions globally, cities such as Nairobi have not yet systematically incorporated integrated urban forest management and community support into their climate change agendas and policies. This project aims to flesh out what collaboration in conservation through engagement with all sectors would look like. 

We are driving this vision through a series of activities that address three central ideas: creating awareness to ignite community interest, capacity development to better channel existing interest, and promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration to magnify the impact of community efforts. 

We are mainly raising awareness in schools and religious institutions. GLFx Nairobi is actively training students in primary and secondary schools in tree selection, planting and maintenance as well as tree nursery development.

These students can then become ambassadors who take home and spread the information they acquire in school. We are currently working with five schools bordering the Oloolua Forest, where we have held training sessions on tree selection and planted over 500 trees. 

“The only way the community can remain consistently engaged in the forest’s restoration is if they can derive value from it,” says Christopher Mureithi, chairperson of the Ecotourism User Group at Oloolua.

We are aiming to develop and protect non-intrusive value chains in the forest ecosystem to benefit the local communities. This will be achieved through training workshops on forest and landscape restoration and value chain development for ecotourism, beekeeping and tree nursery forest groups. 

We also train people in social media and digital marketing to introduce these systems to new markets, as well as proposal writing and pitching to attract potential grants and investments into these activities. 

These workshops are designed to not only equip local residents and community representatives with production skills but also open up new markets and expand opportunities for financing. The workshops are targeting 300 members of the forest user groups with a series of training sessions over four months. 

After completing the awareness creation and capacity development workshops, our last activity will be getting everyone to sing the same tune.

Admittedly, this will likely be the most challenging part of the project. Different stakeholders have different interests and expectations of the forest and a delicate balancing act has to be achieved to adequately and sustainably meet all these competing needs. 

The work thus far hasn’t been without its challenges. It remains difficult to accurately determine the economic value of involving local communities in managing forest resources.

This in turn makes it challenging to quantify the effort and input value of the various income-generating activities – and thus how much benefit to the community is sustainable.

From pastoralist herders and wood fuel collectors to beekeepers and camp managers promoting ecotourism, we will need a streamlined value determination method to sustain long-term collaboration. 

Moreover, the Kenya Forest Service and Ngong Hills Metro Community Forest Association remain critically underfunded and under-resourced, which limits their ability to effectively carry out their mandates. Cases of illegal logging and unauthorized fencing off of sections of the forest have at times gone unnoticed for extensive periods.

Nonprofit entities such as Friends of Oloolua Forest have proven instrumental in plugging some of these holes, especially in pursuing litigation to stop fragmentation and development within the forest reserve. 

To address these challenges, GLFx Nairobi seeks to have the Participatory Forest Management Plan (2023–2027) formally recognized by Nairobi and Kajiado counties. The plan identifies management programs based on the forest resources available and how they will be managed by both the Kenya Forest Service and the Community Forest Associations to enhance conservation and promote community livelihoods. 

This participatory management plan will provide an acceptable framework upon which all conservation and related activities will be implemented to ensure that forests in the region are sustainably conserved and managed for the benefit of present and future generations. 

In their song “Glory” from the soundtrack to the movie Selma, American musicians Common and John Legend call for the combined action of the “wisdom of the elders and young people’s energy.” 

Restoring the Oloolua Forest, like most other significant undertakings in landscape restoration, cannot be done in silos. It is only by creating awareness in both younger and older generations about the value of landscape restoration that we will be able to preserve these ecosystems for generations to come.

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2. Numbers speak volumes. Gathering data on peatland degradation can prompt governments and stakeholders to prioritize conservation.

Let’s do what we can to rebuild a world in which peatlands are not forgotten but recognized and valued for everything they hold.

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Chief Executive Officer,
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Must-See Speakers

Together, our shared knowledge, research, lived experiences and yearning for a healthier world can catalyze great change. We were fortunate to have many incredible scientists, government officials, landscape leaders, representatives for Peat IMPACTS and others share their insights at GLF Peatlands. 

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Sonya Dewi Santoso

Director of Asia at Principal Investigator of Peat IMPACTS (ICRAF)

Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany

Agus Justianto

Director General of the Sustainable Forest Management, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia

Emmanuela Shinta

Director & Chapter Coordinator, Ranu Welum Foundation and GLFx Kalimantan

Alfred Okot Okidi

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Water and Environment at Government of Uganda

Jan Peters

Managing Director at Michael Succow Foundation

Musonda Mumba

Secretary General, Convention on Wetlands

Heike Henn

Director for Climate, Energy and Environment & Commissioner for climate policy and climate financing at German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Franziska Tanneberger

Director at Greifswald Mire Centre

Daniel Murdiyarso

Principal Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF

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Bonn, Germany (26 June 2024) – The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and CIFOR-ICRAF are introducing the Digital Campus, a transformative platform designed for landscape professionals, learners, educators and scientists. This innovative hub will convene learners in a learning experience to drive action toward sustainable landscapes through the latest knowledge, data and research. 

The Digital Campus offers a comprehensive, demand-driven learning experience for local actors and target groups. Later in 2024, it will continue to grow, offering a variety of learning experiences through calls for applications posted on the platform. 

The Digital Campus will feature needs-based and action-oriented learning journeys on integrated and inclusive approaches to governing and managing landscapes. By including case studies and project data from CIFOR-ICRAF, it will bridge the gap between online training and real-world impact. 

“Integrated approaches are widely promoted to tackle the world’s environmental crisis, but few are the opportunities for practitioners to learn how to apply these approaches. The Digital Campus aims to fill this gap by providing a learning space where practitioners can upgrade their knowledge and educators can create curricula to prepare their students to face the challenges of the future,” said Cora van Oosten, Director of Capacity Development & Education at CIFOR-ICRAF. 

By connecting digital content with local action, the Digital Campus aims to strengthen ties among diverse stakeholders and landscapes. It offers an interactive space to share experiences and insights and co-create knowledge. 

Addressing global challenges 

Drawing on the scientific expertise of CIFOR-ICRAF and the GLF’s extensive network, the Digital Campus will focus on nine core themes addressing current global challenges such as the climate crisis and biodiversity loss: 

To learn more about the Digital Campus, contact us here. 

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NOTE TO EDITORS 

For more information or to arrange interviews, contact Kelly Quintero (k.quintero@cifor-icraf.org). 

About the Landscape Academy  

The Digital Campus is part of the Landscape Academy, an initiative by the Global Landscapes Forum offering a wide range of opportunities to address global challenges, supporting professionals worldwide to apply landscape approaches effectively in their contexts. It serves thousands of learners, helping them expand their knowledge, connect with peers and shape their careers in sustainable landscape management. Learn more at https://academy.globallandscapesforum.org/ 

About the GLF 

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, connecting people with a shared vision to create productive, profitable, equitable & resilient landscapes. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Centre (CIFOR-ICRAF), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank, and its charter members. Learn more at www.globallandscapesforum.org. 

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Given the unique opportunity for sustainable rice landscapes to deliver solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation, nature recovery, and improving farmer livelihoods while contributing to food and nutrition security, there is an urgent need to target finance and scale up actions in high-impact landscapes.

Key findings

The Mission paper provides information about the significant climate, nature and equity positive impact potentials, and emerging opportunities to scale private sector investments and collective action for sustainable rice. It also identifies the range of challenges that currently limits the acceleration of the rice sustainability transition at the scale needed, which include: customized support for rice farmers, transition costs and long-term agreements, sustainability target-setting guidance gaps, barriers to engaging in Voluntary Carbon Markets, and public and private sector investment gaps.

The objective of the RICE+ Hub for Regenerative Ricescapes Mission Paper is to serve as an action plan to facilitate pre-competitive private sector collective actions and investments across the entire rice value chain. These investments and collective actions will accelerate rice-related carbon, climate, nature and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) investments and project implementation to scale sustainable rice in priority countries and landscapes, starting with a focus on the major rice-producing regions of South and Southeast Asia.

To accelerate the transition of rice production systems and landscapes to be equitable, regenerative and resilient, the RICE+ hub will focus on and facilitate 3 priority Action Areas through mobilizing our members and partners:

1. Forging public-private investment alliances
2. Promoting high-integrity rice carbon and sustainability standards
3. Expanding knowledge exchange and promoting innovations by the private sector across the rice value chain

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched the Mission paper for the RICE+ hub for regenerative ricescapes, in collaboration with member companies and partners, under the auspices of the Sustainable Rice Landscapes Initiative (SRLI).  Link to other WBCSD related work:

• Long, I. et al. (2023). Asia Rice Nature-Based Solutions Accelerator Baseline report. Climate Focus. 
• Sustainable Rice Landscapes Initiative (SRLI)
• SRLI Report: Scaling private sector investment in sustainable rice: Needs and opportunities

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Sustainable landscapes are essential for the future we want: for food, livelihoods, health, renewable materials, energy, biodiversity, business development, trade, climate regulation and water.

The GLF is dedicated to the landscape approach. It is at the landscape level that production goals, consumption needs and protection targets can be combined, and that people are organized and ready to restore billions of hectares of idle, degraded land. The landscape approach can protect and conserve biodiversity-rich landscapes; tackle insecure tenure, community and gender rights; address food insecurity and declining rural livelihoods; and promote sustainable value chains and sustainable use of natural resources. 

As a global community and working together, we can find the right tools to support locally-led landscape action and measure the progress.

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Vision

The vision of the GLF is to promote the paradigm shift toward sustainable development and meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and the post-2020 biodiversity agenda by connecting communities; facilitating knowledge sharing; and accelerating action to build productive, prosperous, equitable and resilient landscapes. 

Mission and objectives

The GLF enables an effective and progressive response to the climate crisis based on the best available science and knowledge, and actively contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The GLF and all Partners promote:

1. Food security and ending hunger – including safeguarding vulnerable food production systems from the adverse impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss;
2. Actions that contribute to keeping global average temperature increase to well below 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels, while achieving equity and sustainable development;
3. Climate and development actions in the landscape that respect, promote and consider human rights obligations, particularly those of people in marginalized communities and vulnerable situations;
4. Gender equality and strengthening  women and girls;
5. The integrity of all types of ecosystems, including oceans and coastal ecosystems, land-based sustainable resource management systems and the protection of biodiversity;
6. The importance of education, training and other forms of capacity development when taking action to achieve sustainable development;
7. The development of innovative financial instruments, aimed particularly at smallholders and sustainable value chains and resource management systems; and
8. The development of indicators to measure progress in all activities.

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The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme is a major international initiative that aims to improve wildlife conservation and food security. The program aims to develop innovative, collaborative, and scalable new approaches to conserve wild animals and protect ecosystems, whilst at the same time improving the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and rural communities who depend on these resources.

 

The challenge

 

Millions of people depend on wild meat for food and income. Wild meat is an important source of protein, fat, and micronutrients, particularly for indigenous peoples and rural communities in South America, Africa, and Asia.

The demand for wild meat is growing, especially in urban areas. If hunting for wild meat is not managed at sustainable levels, then wildlife populations will decline and people will suffer increased food insecurity. Recent studies have shown that overhunting for food is now threatening hundreds of wildlife species with extinction.

 

 

The solution

 

Between 2018 and 2024, the SWM Programme will help improve the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in the forest, savannah, and wetland ecosystems. Field projects are being implemented across 15 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries by:

• improving how wildlife hunting is regulated

• increasing the supply of sustainably produced meat products and farmed fish

• strengthening the management capacities of indigenous and rural communities

• reducing demand for wild meat, particularly in towns and cities

 

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The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme innovates on wildlife conservation and food security 

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During this panel, Tony Rinaudo (the forest-maker) and other representatives of the approach of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) – a Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) method – will be discussing the potential of FMNR for restoration of African landscapes with Volker Schlöndorff (the film-maker). A short trailer of Schlöndorff’s documentary “The Forest Maker” will be featured during the session and impressions about the production of the film will be shared. It will be announced that the full film/documentary will be shown in the evening of the same day (Friday, November 5th at 7:00 – 8:30 GMT here). Afterwards, the importance of cooperation between ‘grassroots level’ and ‘framework setting’ organizations will be discussed. Furthermore, the panelist will discuss the need for a combined ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’ approach in the frame of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) including local communities and knowledge as well as women and youth for a successful and sustainable restoration of landscape for food security, forest protection and more. The initiative propagates FLR in over 30 countries, which are committed to restore close to 130 million hectares of forest.

Relevant Resource(s):

• The Forest Maker | Trailer (watch here)
• Forest-maker | Training on FMNR (watch here)
• Whitepaper: The Film-maker meets the Forest-maker – The story behind FMNR and its role for restoration of African landscapes!

Useful Website(s):
https://fmnrhub.com.au/ 

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