“Are you a driver or a passenger in deforestation?” asked Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, as he opened a discussion forum that was part of Forest Day 6, held on 2 December 2012 in Doha, Qatar in conjunction with the …
Archive for December, 2012
Shame and pride can be drivers of reforestation
Zimbabwean beef farmer, livestock scientist and agricultural policy thinker assumes chair of ILRI’s Board of Trustees
Trained animal scientist and practicing commercial beef cattle farmer Lindiwe Sibanda, who for years has been one of the most influential thinkers in agriculture, food security and climate change global policy, has been appointed chair of the ILRI Boar…
Pathogen ecologies and human interventions: The natural and unnatural histories of zoonotic diseases
This week, the Lancet publishes a series on diseases that are ‘zoonotic’, that is, infections shared by people and other animals. The first paper describes the sharing of pathogenic organisms by people and wild and domesticated animals is a natural…
Q+A in Doha: Meeting food needs while protecting forests
As the world struggles to feed a growing population without expanding into forests and scrubland, policymakers need to consider making more efficient use of land and relocating agriculture to non-forest or degraded landscapes, scientists say.