June 2, 2010, 8:16 am
Markets and incentives in livelihoods and landscapes strategy: using economic and financial tools to sustain forest livelihoods and landscapes.
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) seeks to influence the ways in which forests are managed and used. As described in this 
publication, economic factors have an extremely important influence on forest livelihoods and landscapes.
The Markets & Incentives theme of LLS aims to identify how economic and financial tools can be used to support more sustainable forest use and management, while also increasing the incomes and livelihood security of the rural poor…
Find out more about LLS
November 13, 2009, 12:02 pm
Gebisa Ejeta
The 2009 World Food Prize will be awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability of one of the world’s five principal grains and enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Ejeta’s scientific breakthroughs in breeding drought-tolerant and Striga-resistant sorghum have been combined with his persistent efforts to foster economic development and the empowerment of subsistence farmers through the creation of agricultural enterprises in rural Africa. He has led his colleagues in working with national and local authorities and nongovernmental agencies so that smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs can catalyze efforts to improve crop productivity, strengthen nutritional security, increase the value of agricultural products, and boost the profitability of agricultural enterprise – thus fostering profound impacts on lives and livelihoods on broader scale across the African continent. Read more …
publication, economic factors have an extremely important influence on forest livelihoods and landscapes.
