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Drought is arguably one of the most devastating natural disasters in developing countries, particularly in Africa. Climate change is expected to add to this threat. Drought has far-reaching socio-economic and ecological implications that include loss of lives and livelihoods, famine, lack of water for human use and livestock, pasture and crops, diminishing energy production, and loss of assets…

Recognising the challenge of implementing high-level targets and initiatives like the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration and Land Degradation Neutrality, and realising that obtaining results on the ground will confront many context-specific questions, a team of scientists from relevant IUFRO units has prepared this practitioner's guide to Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration. The guide…

The energy–water–food (EWF) nexus approach recognizes the dynamic and complex interlinkages between energy, water and food security, all of which are key goals in the context of sustainable development. The approach is a structured planning method that aims to capture the interdependency of resource use and availability across all three major sectors. In so doing, it can lead to a more optimal…

Land is a major overarching theme connecting the three Rio Conventions covering climate change (UNFCCC), biodiversity (CBD), and desertification and land degradation (UNCCD). Land management plays a key role in attaining their goals and targets. Furthermore, a large number of the Sustainable Development Goals have strong links to land and land management, and trade-offs between sustainability…

Widespread palm oil production causes much controversy due to its negative impacts in the tropics. But whatever is said about it, it is big business and getting bigger by the day due to increasing global demands. Alongside this, the size and depth of the social and environmental debates surrounding palm oil production are also growing. As a major globally-consumed commodity, its production in the…

This publication gives an overview of work in progress and applies some original tools to analyze the food situation in the current century on the terrestrial planet. First, for a better description the Climate Classification System from Wladimir Köppen and Rudolf Geiger is applied. This climate system has been developed more than a century ago but has been updated with satellite observations of…