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How Farmers in Africa are Restoring Degraded Lands and Enhancing Resilience

27 October 2016
James A. Harmon Conference Center
10 G Street, NE (Suite 800)
Washington, DC
United States

Join us for a live discussion with World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, WRI’s Robert Winterbottom and other experts on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – a key strategy for restoring degraded lands, achieving food security, and enriching rural areas.

Throughout the developing world, huge tracts of farmland, grazing lands and forests have become degraded to the point they are barely producti

The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America

28 October 2016
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor,
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC
United States

Join us for an engaging discussion around the economic benefits of restoring productivity to deforested and degraded lands in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin America and the Caribbean account for over 20 percent of the world’s degraded lands, with 300 million hectares of degraded forests and 350 million hectares now classified as deforested—an area almost double the size of Mexi

III Congresso Iber-oamericano de Solo Urbano

23 August 2017 - 25 August 2017
Curitiba, Brasil
Curitiba
Brazil

Nos dias 23,24 e 25 de agosto do presente ano, levar-se-á a cabo o TERCEIRO CONGRESSO IBEROAMERICANO DE SOLO URBANO na cidade de Curitiba, Brasil, com o tema “O solo na nova agenda urbana”, organizado de maneira conjunta pelo Colégio Mexiquence AC, a Universidade Federal do Paraná, a Universidade Pontifícia Católica do Paraná e a Universidade Positivo.

III ENPSSAN Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional

11 August 2017 - 11 October 2017
Av. Presidente Vargas, 417/ 8º 20.071-003 – Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

O Comitê Executivo da Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional tem a satisfação de confirmar a realização do III Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em SSAN nos dias 08, 09 e 10 de Novembro de 2017, na cidade de Curitiba (PR), em local ainda a ser escolhido entre as opções existentes.

Adapting to Climate Change: Community Based Adaptation in Multi-Stakeholder LandScapes

07 December 2017 - 08 December 2017
Academiegebouw
Domplein 29
Utrecht
Netherlands

Climate change is amongst the most prominent developmental issues today. As a result, large amounts of capital are being made available to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity of climate-vulnerable people, particularly in the global South.