Nov 18, 2013

Time to stop treating farms and forests separately - experts - Reuters AlertNet


Farmers, governments and scientists need to step up efforts to manage forests and farm land as a whole, and stop treating them as separate issues, experts experts say

CGIAR Climate's insight:
Bruce Campbell, director of the CGIAR research programme on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS), said non-financial assistance - like better weather forecasts - could also enable farmers to become more innovative. "If you don't know what the season is going to bring, you won't invest your labour and money," he said.