7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

In this Dragons’ Den session, two biodiversity projects pitch to a panel of investors, showing real opportunities to fund conservation and sustainable practices. Investors provide feedback, highlighting solutions to bridge the biodiversity finance gap.

Global Biodiversity Finance Roadmap

In the final plenary, experts discuss priorities and solutions for a roadmap to achieve Global Biodiversity Framework goals. Stakeholders, from financial institutions to policymakers, are urged to drive implementation, with a focus on including local communities and Indigenous Peoples in biodiversity financing.

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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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About GLF Africa 2024

On 17 September, thousands of participants gathered at ‘GLAF Africa 2024: Greening the African Horizon’ in Nairobi, Kenya, and online for a global conference focused on forging a prosperous and sustainable future for Africa’s land- and seascapes, driven by local solutions.

About Betty Kibaara

Betty Kibaara is a Director in the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, Africa Regional Office. At the Foundation, Betty leads the Foundations investments in transforming food systems. These include increasing access to nutritious foods through school feeding programs. She is also advancing investments in regenerative agriculture through development of the frass fertilizers from insects such as the black soldier fly. She holds a Master of Science degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management, Egerton University, Kenya.

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6 years, 6 priorities:

Building a greener and resilient future in Africa by 2030

Key takeaways from the GLF Africa 2024 Hybrid Conference

Together, we have the power to green Africa and beyond – for securing livelihoods, food security, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation.

Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO, CIFOR-ICRAF

Watch the Opening Plenary in full

Healthy and functional landscapes are not only vital for biodiversity and ecosystem services, they are also necessary for the cultural and economic well-being of communities, and they are crucial to achieving global goals and are the basis for local development.

Ariane Hildebrandt, Director General, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The international community must recognize that Indigenous Peoples are not just beneficiaries. We are partners in global environmental solutions

Semerian Sankori, Founder, Patinaai Osim, Maasai Woman

Learn how local communities are greening the African horizon – a call to action from the GLFx community

In Kisoro, Uganda farmers promote self-reliance restoration that allows them to feed themselves and generate income all year around and protect our biodiversity

Gerald Nkusi, GLFx Virunga chapter coordinator

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 the solutions to land issues that are upon them.

Deborah Oyugi, English Countries Manager and Safeguarding Lead, Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (Yilaa)

Participatory approaches in integrated landscape management are important for community involvement - local communities are stewards of the land tenure and inclusion of various stakeholders, such as farmers, local authorities, indigenous communities, private sector, NGOs is necessary

Anne Itubo, Section Head Participatory Forest Management, Kenya Forest Service

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We need a technology that is Africa-based, applicable to our landscape, and we need to be cautious on the way we process data, who collects it, stores it, and if this will be accessible to all.

Joshua Laizer, Co-founder, Tanzania Conservation and Community Empowerment Initiative (TACCEI) & GLFx Maasai Steppe

WATCH: Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President & CEO of ONE Campaign, speaking at the GLF Africa 2024 Hybrid Conference

This is a new time and a new day for Africa. We must demand for what Africa wants, not what the world thinks we need. We must raise our voices, amplify African agency and unlock financing that will really drive change in our ecosystem.

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President & CEO, ONE Campaign

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and stay tuned for GLF Africa 2025!

Media and Digital Partners

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The air is abuzz with them as our organization, Support Humanity Cameroon (SUHUCAM), has been helping implement beekeeping, tree planting and other sustainable means of livelihood across the region.

Beekeeping symbolizes more than honey production. It is a means for grassroots livelihoods, which is especially important in Cameroon due to the challenging economic situation, with 55 percent of the population living under the poverty line.

Land degradation and climate change make these economic issues worse, especially for women in the Mbororo community.  

SUHUCAM is an organization focused on building inclusive, self-sufficient and sustainable communities and a world where people live happily in harmony with one another and with nature. They inspire local action to restore local ecosystems and conserve biodiversity. Most importantly they do this while empowering local livelihoods to enact widespread change.

The creation of SUHUCAM and the GLFx Yaoundé chapter

SUHUCAM was founded in 2018 as a development and environmental organization. Our vision is to build inclusive, self-sufficient and sustainable communities and build a world where people live in harmony with one another and with nature. 

We were selected in December 2021 to host the GLFx Yaoundé chapter. It is currently operating in two Regions in the Northwest and Central Regions of Cameroon, but its flagship restoration project, the Bamunkumbit Integrated Community Forest (BICFOR), is located in the Ngoketunjia Division in the Bamenda ecological highlands of Northwest Cameroon. 

The BICFOR restoration initiative was launched in 2019 to restore the ecosystem and biodiversity functions of the degraded remnant montane forest of Bamunkumbit while enhancing the livelihoods of the local and Indigenous populations in adjacent communities.

Our restoration activities include tree planting, promoting natural regeneration, sustainable agriculture, alternative livelihoods support, capacity building and policy advocacy. 

So far, SUHUCAM has planted over 25,000 trees. Not only does this help reforest the region, but it also helps provide alternative livelihoods because many of the species they plant include kola nuts, avocados and oranges, which have high economic value. SUHUCAM has distributed these trees to over 500 smallholder farmers. 

Pairing sustainability with livelihood opportunities

The BICFOR restoration initiative is fully backed by the community. We have had over 300 community volunteers supporting the restoration initiative with 16 of them serving as permanent field volunteers.

When we launched the initiative, we primarily focused on tree planting. Two years later, we realized that the local population was losing interest in the restoration activities and the number of community volunteers supporting our work drastically reduced. 

They needed an activity to alleviate poverty and create economic opportunities within their communities. After organizing a series of sensitization and consultative meetings with local stakeholders, we initiated alternative livelihood activities to address economic and social demands, strengthening resilience and enhancing adaptive capacities to climate change impacts. 

We initially worked with 30 Indigenous Mbororo women. Women are the most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis. Aside from being a minority group in Cameroon, they also depend entirely on natural resources for their livelihoods, living on hilltops with little access to basic facilities like education, health and potable water. 

Before our intervention, these women were not involved in any form of economic activity and had no voice in decision making in their communities. Only two of the 30 women had received any formal education.

Supporting Mbororo women

In 2023, we scaled the number of beneficiaries to 65 women from 65 households. We organized training workshops on organic vegetable cultivation, entrepreneurship, basic marketing and bookkeeping and donated farm inputs like hoes, cutlasses, wheelbarrows, sprayers and protective shoes and clothing. 

We set up a demonstration farm and engaged the beneficiaries in cultivating organic vegetables like carrots, huckleberry, cabbage and onion.

To ensure the sustainable and continuous self-determination of Mbororo women, we founded the Ma’ate Mbororo Women Common Initiative Group (MAMWO-CIG), the first formal grouping of women in the targeted communities of Awing, Bamunkumbit and Balikumbat. 

At the end of 2022, Jenabou Issah, the secretary of the MAMWO-CIG, expressed gratitude, explaining that the farms had been very beneficial to them. She used some of the vegetables to feed her family and sold the rest. 

In 2023, Mariama Isah, a member of the Awing community we work with, used the proceeds to venture into sheep farming. Today, she has three sheep.

“This year, I only cultivated cabbage and onion because there is a bigger market,” she says. “I made some profit, which I used to buy a sheep. I will continue using my profits to buy more sheep because they are easy to keep.”

Beekeeping brings hope to many

In 2023, we launched beekeeping activities primarily as an income-generating activity for the 16 volunteers supporting our restoration initiative.

This year, through the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) funded project titled: “Tree Planting and Livelihood Development to Restore and Manage Ecosystem Services in the Fragile Ecological Landscape of Bamunkumbit,” we have provided training and donated beekeeping materials to 30 women and young people from pastoralist and farming communities.

The objective of this activity is to help local communities earn a sustainable income that also benefits their natural environments. We also intend through this activity to incentivize and engage pastoralists and smallholder farmers in land restoration and environmental protection. So far, we have donated beehives, bee suits and smokers to three restoration groups. 

Participants were thrilled with the new skills and tools. Local bee farmer Ache Ernest, who had previously struggled with poor yields and unsafe methods, expressed his excitement: “Every year, I could harvest like 20 liters of honey. I sell a liter at XAF 2500 (USD 4.16). This was not enough to take care of my financial needs. I am very happy with this opportunity. I am going to engage more in beekeeping so that I can raise money and go back to school.”

Another farmer, Alot Christopher, shared similar enthusiasm: “I am very happy and grateful for these donations. With the bee suits and beehives, I will now harvest honey at any time of the day. I will also be able to monitor to know when my honey is ready for harvesting.”

Promoting agroforestry

We have also promoted climate-smart agricultural practices like agroforestry and provided capacity building. So far, over 500 farmers are integrating agroforestry practices in their farming systems with trees donated by SUHUCAM/GLFx Yaoundé. 

We have conducted training on the “Plants issues des fragment” (PIF) technique, an innovative approach for banana and plantain suckers multiplication through vegetative techniques. This will enable restoration groups to establish commercial nurseries with a focus on banana and plantain suckers to enhance food security in the Northwest Region.

Plantains and bananas are widely consumed and commercialized in these communities, but production has declined drastically due to disease, soil degradation and the climate crisis. 

To ensure that we amplify the voices of grassroots actors, we have grouped beneficiaries into three restoration groups: the Mbuanumbua Common Initiative Group, the Mayo Ma’ate Common Initiative Group and the Anushini Common Initiative Group.

In total, four restoration groups have been created, and all are now fully operational. 

Looking ahead

The long-term goal of these groups is to inspire grassroots restoration stewardship in the Bamenda Ecological Highland Area, create a beekeeping cooperative, and train members in bee product processing, packaging and marketing to access a larger market. 

We are also excited to create more opportunities in sustainable agriculture and the sustainable management of non-timber forest products. 

Through our initiatives, we enhance food security, reduce extreme poverty and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities. We help foster collaboration between pastoralists and smallholder farmers to mitigate conflicts between farmers and wildlife, boost the bee population and help reforest the region. 

We are committed to a greener, brighter future.

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• This September, discover the power of African knowledge and action.
• As the climate crisis disproportionately affects the continent, top African scientists and practitioners will convene to drive local solutions for a promising future.
• Meet remarkable local and international leaders working on just and multifaceted approaches to promote sustainable solutions across African landscapes.

Nairobi, Kenya (5 September 2024) – On 17 September, a collective of local, national and international stakeholders will gather to discuss transformative, locally-led landscape solutions to inform policies, build knowledge, and finance and scale up landscape restoration and biodiversity conservation across Africa.

The GLF Africa 2024 Hybrid Conference: Greening the African Horizon will feature leading experts and practitioners in tech and AI, climate, sustainable finance, food systems, social innovation and more, who are setting the continent on the road to a sustainable and prosperous future.

Take a glance at the GLF Africa 2024 lineup:

Ariane Hildebrandt, Director General at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. She is responsible for global health, equality of opportunity, digital technologies and food security, including population policy, social protection, education, decent work, data and statistics, sustainable supply chains, water, circular economy, agriculture and rural development. Before she joined BMZ, she worked for the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the University of Würzburg, where she obtained her PhD.

Arnold Kipchumba, Director of Environment and Climate Action at MaMa Doing Good, an initiative of the First Lady of the Republic of Kenya. Arnold is a climate and environment professional passionate about building resilient and sustainable communities. He has extensive experience coordinating environment, natural resources, and climate change programs for the 47 county governments in Kenya, and has also designed, monitored and reviewed policies and laws related to those areas.

Benjamin Singer, Senior Forest and Land Use Specialist at Green Climate Fund (GCF). Benjamin supports the design of transformational projects and programs on forests, land use and ecosystems. Prior to this, he worked as a forest financing expert at the United Nations Forum on Forests where he supported countries in mobilizing financing for sustainable forest management. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, he joined the UN Secretary-General’s Office to support the UN’s pandemic response on financing for development.

Betty Kibaara, Director in the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, Africa Regional Office. She leads the Foundations investments in transforming food systems, including increasing access to nutritious foods through school feeding programs. Betty has a Master in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Colorado State University (U.S.) and a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management from Egerton University (Kenya). She advances investments in regenerative agriculture through development of the frass fertilizers from insects.

Catherine Nakalembe, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences and Africa Program Director for NASA Harvest. Her research focuses on developing remote sensing and machine learning applications for smallholder agriculture, early warning of food insecurity, and disaster assessment in Africa. Catherine is an award-winning scientist, earning recognition including the 2022 Highest Civilian Award: The Golden Jubilee Medal-Civilians of Uganda and the 2020 Africa Food Prize.

Charlette N’Guessan, Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at AMINI, an African deep tech company addressing data scarcity in the Global South by leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence. Charlette is also an AI expert consultant at APET, the African Union High-Level Group on Emerging Technologies, focusing on shaping the AI governance landscape in Africa. Among her numerous recognitions is being the first woman recipient of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF). Born in Rwanda and raised on three continents, Éliane has a background in agriculture and molecular genetics. She serves on several boards and has been recognized for outstanding contributions to innovation, gender equity and sustainable prosperity creation. Éliane is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council and Presidential Advisory Council, among others.

Elizabeth Mrema, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Elizabeth has served as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity, as Director of the Law Division and the Deputy Director of the Ecosystems Division at UNEP, and as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. She has also worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania.

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President/CEO of the ONE Campaign. Ndidi is an expert on social innovation, African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship and youth development. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is a recognized serial entrepreneur, author, public speaker and consultant. Ndidi started her career as a management consultant in Chicago, New York and Johannesburg and returned to Nigeria in 2000 to lead the FATE Foundation, supporting young entrepreneurs to start and scale their businesses.

Susan Chomba, Director of Vital Landscapes at the World Resources Institute (WRI). A scientist with extensive research and development experience in Africa for more than 15 years, Susan leads WRI Africa’s work on forest protection and landscape restoration, food systems transformation and water. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and a global ambassador for the Race to Zero and Resilience under the UN High Level Champions for Climate Action.

Rose Mwebaza, Director and Regional Representative of UNEP Africa Office. She has served as the Director and Advisory Board Secretary of the United Nations Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the implementation arm of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism. Among other roles, Rose is a Carl Duisburg Research fellow at the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a member of the UN Master Minds, and a founding member of the Network for African Women Environmentalists.

Youba Sokona, Honorary Professor at University College London. With over 40 years of experience addressing energy, environment and sustainable development in Africa, Youba has been at the heart of numerous national and continental initiatives. He was a Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report. He also served as Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the fifth assessment report after having been a Lead Author since 1990. Youba is a member of The World Academy of Sciences, among other associations.

Meet all of the speakers here.

GLF Africa 2024 will take place on 17 September 2024, online and in person at the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Explore the full agenda here and register here. Learn more at bit.ly/GLFAfrica2024

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NOTES TO EDITORS

• Apply for a press pass to attend the conference online or in person in English or French
• Stay tuned for conference updates, read key messages from the GLF Africa 2024 themes, access conference images and learn more about the event in our newsroom
• For more information, please contact Kelly Quintero (k.quintero@cifor-icraf.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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Food production drives climate change, deforestation, pollution, and biodiversity loss, contributing a third of global emissions. Unsustainable practices threaten key commodities like coffee, cocoa, and soy, worsening environmental degradation and rural poverty.

The FOLUR Impact Program, funded by the Global Environment Facility and led by the World Bank, reforms food systems and restores landscapes. Active in 27 countries since 2021, FOLUR promotes participatory approaches, involving local communities and Indigenous Peoples in resource management. The program uses tools like the Participatory Informed Landscape Approach (PILA) to connect projects with global knowledge and align with international regulations.

FOLUR aims for sustainable value chains by 2050, balancing high yields with conservation, and addressing the significant costs of food system inefficiencies estimated at $12.7 trillion by the FAO.

Download the spring update to learn more about FOLUR’s latest achievements.

Explore more resources on the GLF-FOLUR Partnership platform.

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There, you can click the toggle button to show past sessions. This will enable you to replay all past hybrid and digital sessions on demand. These recordings will be available for three weeks after the event.

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