The world’s top forestry experts and high-profile decision makers gathered on the sidelines of the UN Climate talks yesterday for the last Forest Day, as the event shifts to a more integrated focus on achieving food security and overcoming climate ch…
Forestry experts have called for a new approach to managing land and tackling climate change – challenging the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed for the sake of rural development and food security.
“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 …
Scientists conducting research in the area of pathogen discovery, especially virus discovery met for a 4 day workshop on 5-8 Nov 2012. Held at ILRI, Nairobi, the aim of the workshop was to enable ILRI to make informed decisions about which technologies…
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…
The Lancet has launched a new three-part series on zoonotic diseases (diseases that are transmissible between animals and people). “Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of …
This presentation by Gabrielle Kissinger and Martin Herold, given at a UNFCCC COP18 side-event, shares findings from a recently published global assessment on the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.
‘Fewer but better fed animals can make livestock production more efficient.’ This was said by Mario Herrero at ILRI in Nairobi. Herrero was speaking on13 Nov 2012 in the of a series of science seminars organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Cl…
