Forestry, biodiversity and agricultural institutions have traditionally operated separately, despite working on many shared challenges such as food security, climate change and deforestation.


Forestry, biodiversity and agricultural institutions have traditionally operated separately, despite working on many shared challenges such as food security, climate change and deforestation.

Negotiators at Bonn climate talks have whittled away at controversial policy details related to verifying carbon emissions, paving the way for major progress on REDD+ at the UN climate summit in Warsaw in November.

Landscape approaches seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodive…
This chapter describes various wellknown conventional and market-based instruments for nature conservation. Regulatory approaches have increasingly been combined with economic incentives to harness the advantages of each approach, building a bridge bet…