The inaugural GLF event took place alongside the 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland.
Current core partners are the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme and 33 Charter Members: As of 2017, the host country partners are the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
On this occasion, 10 young professionals from across the world shared their stories and highlighted the key and active role that youth have in landscapes.
YIL is a partnership coordinated by the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD), the International Forestry Students Association (IFSA), and Youth 4 Nature (Y4N).
Together, these organizations represent over 60,000 young people working and studying across frontiers and generations to achieve justice and shared prosperity for communities and to support thriving landscapes.
Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) is a $345 million, seven-year initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility and led by the World Bank.
Seeking to transform food and land use systems, the program consists of a global knowledge platform and 27 country projects.
Country-level work will focus on accelerating action in landscapes and along value chains for eight major commodities, including livestock, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm oil, rice, soy and wheat.
Following a move towards more integrated landscape approaches in both the forestry and agriculture sides of the research for development sphere, the Global Landscapes Forum was born in 2013 out of a merger of Forest Day and Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD), which had been annual side events at the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP) since 2007 and 2009 respectively.
The events also provide a regular convening space for a community of leading sustainable financial actors to review and launch new innovative strategies for land-based investments.