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CIFOR Director General, Peter Holmgren - Landscapes, forests and development

CIFOR Director General talks to Australian foresters about landscapes, forests and developmentPeter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), gives the keynote address at the Institute of Foresters of Australia National Conference, "Managing our Forests into the 21st Century", in Canberra on 8 April 2013.Peter talks about the need to erase the "lines in the landscape" -- with forest on one side and non-forest on the other -- to break down walls between sectors and move toward a landscape approach.For more thoughts from Peter Holmgren, read his blog at http://blog.cifor.org/pholmgren or follow him on Twitter @pholmgren. www.cifor.orgwww.blog.cifor.org

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