Nibbles: IUCN conference tweep, ICARDA move, Adaptation stories, Branding and market chains, Tree farming

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  1. IUCN Conference:
    The reports from the various sections of this conference are rubbish. I started commenting (where this was permitted) but soon gave up faced with (from `Nature and Climate Change’): “REDD must use a decentralized approach focused on benefit sharing of natural resources as well as contribute to poverty reduction with clear proof while promoting techniques on sustainable agriculture away from shifting cultivation.”

    Conservationist have been throwing farming communities out of protected areas for over half a century on the U.S. Yellowstone model: they got it wrong and have learnt nothing. IUCN are now trying to increase land-based protected areas to 17% (food, anyone?) and still attack shifting cultivation, (perhaps the most diverse, sustainable, and knowledge-intensive way of producing food).

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