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| COVID-led meat ban threatens food security |
Wildlife conservationists are welcoming China’s move to outlaw hunting and consumption of wild animals due to the theory that the virus was transmitted from a mammal to humans in a market, but if a ban is replicated elsewhere, the nutritional needs of millions of people worldwide – often Indigenous or rural communities where wild meat is the main source of protein – will be put at risk. Learn more about COVID-19 and what it means for wild meat at CIFOR’s upcoming webinar.
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GLF’s Landscape News has launched a new series of live interviews with leading experts on COVID-19. On World Health Day (7 April at 15:00 CEST), scientists Kate Jones and Thomas Gillespie will discuss the latest research on the spread of zoonotic diseases, followed by renowned author and thinker Otto Scharmer on how this epidemic can lead to systemic change (8 April at 20:00 CEST). See the full lineup here, and join the conversation with #GLFLive.
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At this very moment, the globe is navigating a new way to communicate and solve problems. We’re having to rethink the way we’ve done everything, from shopping for food to planning for the future of our food as the trend toward lab-grown food emerges.
Join the Digital Forum: Food without Farmers on 23 April, hosted by IFOAM - Organics International in collaboration with the Global Landscapes Forum, to be a part of an exciting program that aims to answer the question: What would a future of food without farmers look like? This event explores GLFs 2020 theme of “Food and Livelihoods” and leads the GLF Bonn Digital Forum: Food in the time of climate crisis.
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| FORESTS NEWS |
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| Solutions for saving the world’s forests |
| On International Day of Forests, CIFOR’s Robert Nasi and ICRAF’s Tony Simons tell it like it is, drawing attention to the urgent need for general recognition of the key role treed landscapes play in combating climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, aimed at alleviating poverty. |
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| Drought fuels charcoal boom in Zambia |
| Up to 90 percent of Zambia’s households rely on wood fuel to meet energy needs. Cities are behind an unprecedented charcoal boom, leading to deforestation. |
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| Indonesia’s secret forests: Underground water world |
| Gunung Sewu on the Indonesian island of Java is set in a dramatic landscape and designated a UNESCO geopark. Its real treasure lies deep underground, in a mysterious world of rivers and caverns, adorned with crystals, stalactites and stalagmites and inhabited by unusual creatures. |
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| GLF Live: Join Q&As with experts on COVID-19 as it relates to… |
- Biodiversity: Kate Jones (University College London) and Thomas Gillespie (Emory University), 7 April, 15:00 CEST
- Behavior and systemic change: Otto Scharmer (MIT), 8 April, 20:00 CEST
- Climate change: Aaron Bernstein (Harvard University), 15 April, 16:00 CEST
- Food systems: Lawrence Haddad (GAIN), 21 April, 15:00 CEST
- Deforestation: Robert Nasi (CIFOR) and Annika Terrana (WWF), 27 April, 14:00 CEST
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| Forest Conservation, rights and diets |
Recent research has highlighted the contributions of forests and tree-based systems to both dietary diversity and nutrition as well as agricultural production in the form of tree-based ecosystem services.
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