Global Landscapes Forum 2015

Sunday, 6 December from 11.30 to 13.00: WLE, in collaboration with IFPRI and CIAT, is organizing a high-level panel on gender, landscapes and land-tenure. The dialogue will focus on the practical requirements for implementing gender-sensitive land restoration while moving beyond the usual rhetoric on gender issues and laying to rest exaggerated gender statistic. 

WLE will host a Youth Forum Challenge on landscape restoration as part of the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, which will ask youth to engage in defining innovative tools for data development and pitch these tools to a dragons den of experts on Sunday 6 December from 14:30 to 16:00. The session will build on WLE's Four Basin Gender Profiles (4BGP) project.

Sunday, 6 December from 9.00 to 10.30: CIAT is co-hosting a session which follows up on Initiative 20×20 that was launched at last year's GLF, which is a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares of degraded lands into the process of restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2020. 

Saturday, 5 December from 17.15 to 18.45: The role of tenure security in providing incentives for sustainable resource management and restoration is well established. However, much of the policy attention has been on securing individual lands, which make up only part of the landscape mosaic. This session will present research on the importance of the commons for addressing climate change and land degradation, the challenges and potential ways of securing tenure on the commons, and the perspective of civil society. Ruth Meinzen-Dick of IFPRI is one of the speakers.