Land use

“Yes to Peace”? Environmental peacemaking and transboundary conservation in Central America

Journal article / Read how environmental issues can provide arguments for maintaining or even strengthening conflicts rather than fostering peace between states.

22 May 2015 / About Ecosystems, Geopolitics and Land use

How can we avoid another virus outbreak?

Feature / Focusing on biodiversity, biosafety and bioinformatics can offer a multi-dimensional strategy for effective virus risk management.

30 March 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use and Sustainable Development Goals

Rights-based claims in the extractive sector

SEI brief / This brief gives an overview of how actors engage with rights-based approaches in South and Southeast Asia.

16 March 2020 / About Ecosystems, Land use, Participation and Public policy

Mapping three decades of changes in the Brazilian savanna native vegetation using Landsat data processed in the Google Earth Engine platform

Journal article / Read an assessment of 30 years of change to native vegetation in Brazil's Cerrado.

16 March 2020 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Land use

Rights-based claims and extractive industries in Asia: an assessment and ways forward

SEI working paper / Read a literature review of rights-based claims against extractive industries in Asia.

12 March 2020 / About Land use and Public policy

Why land restoration is key to sustainable prosperity and how to set it on track

Feature / SEI’s Toby Gardner and fellow IPBES researchers outline a 10-pillar strategy for the effective protection and restoration of land.

10 March 2020 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Land use, Public policy, Supply chains and Sustainable Development Goals

Bioenergy in Kenya: Making tea production sustainable

Media coverage / Rocio Diaz Chaves, Deputy Centre Director at SEI Africa featured by Deutsche Welle (DW) in a short movie about biofuel from sugarcane waste.

27 February 2020 / About Business, Food and agriculture, Forests, Innovation, Land use, Planning and modelling, Renewables and Supply chains

How to halt the global decline of lands

Journal article / Land degradation around the world shows no signs of abating. This article sets out 10 broad strategies for protecting and restoring land.

12 February 2020 / About Ecosystems, Land use and Supply chains

Soybean supply chain management and sustainability: A systematic literature review

Journal article / A review of existing literature to identify key themes or topics and to develop a conceptual framework to guide future research.

7 February 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Land use and Supply chains