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How can we provide food
for a growing population without converting a large part
of the world's remaining forests to make way for new farmland?
How can we stem the tide of climate change and deal with the consequences?
How can we achieve these things and at the same time
ensure economic growth for the poor and leave no one behind?
These are some of the most pressing questions for humanity and for our planet.
And these are some of the questions
we're going to discuss at the Global Landscapes Forum
a major international conference on the sidelines
of the upcoming UN climate change summit in Warsaw, in November.
When we talk about landscapes, what does that mean?
As a first step, we recognize that we can't look at forestry and agriculture in isolation.
A "landscapes" approach to research and to policy
takes a wider view and finds combined solutions.
If we want to make meaningful progress and contribute
to overall sustainable development,
then researchers, policy maker and all of us must think
about forests and agriculture as inextricably linked
parts of a greater "landscape", parts of combined solutions.
We need to tear down
the institutional barriers between these areas.
This is what the landscapes forum is about.
Global Landscape Forum has a very concrete objectives
to inform the UN climate agreements the future ones
and the achievement of the UN sustainable development
Consider the following facts
it's three billion people living in rural areas
depending on agriculture and forestry for livelihoods.
Globally, there's 1 billion people who are food insecure.
In 15 years time there'll be another 1 billion person to feed.
From a food perspectives, the obvious solution is to expand food production
this often means increasing the mount of area given to agriculture.
But this comes at the expense of forests and natural ecosystems.
Agriculture is the most important driver of deforestation,
it accounts for about three-quarters of all deforestation around the globe.
On has to tackle agriculture and forestry issues at the same time,
the landscape approaches one tool that we can use to do.
We have to think and act differently,
forum intends to bring the different sectors together
in order to start this conversations.
We'd like to welcome you to Warsaw, on 16th-17th of November, to the Global Landscape Forum.
On behalf of the group of international organizations that putting together the forum.
See you there.