Tag: biodiversity

• Forest Kids — educating youth about biodiversity

  

  Join us for a collaborative journey of game creation from concept to launch. In this article, you’ll learn about the creative process behind the online game Forest Kids, from its initial concept to its final launch. You’ll discover how the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Avoin, and the European Space Agency (ESA) worked together to…

• Building digital tools for sustainable forest management

  

  Here´s a sneak peek into the development process of the forestry layer of Avoin Map, the virtual mapping tool for sustainable development. Sustainable forest management is not easy — but digital tools can make it a little easier. Avoin, a not-for-profit organization focusing on digital tools for sustainable development, has developed its virtual mapping tool Avoin…

• The True Green Evolution — imagining the future of agriculture

  

  Now it´s the time to ensure there is enough food for the generations to come. As a dancer, I like the word agriculture because it includes the word “culture” in it. This is not too far from the truth: the development of immaterial culture was indeed accelerated by the invention of agriculture around 12,000 years…

• Reducing the environmental impact of peatland agriculture

  

  “In the beginning, there were the swamp, the hoe — and Jussi”, says Finnish author Väinö Linna. But what comes next? This blog post and related article (in Finnish, behind a paywall) were produced as a part of the Makera-fund-supported OMAIHKA-project “Climate change mitigation in organic soils on cattle farms” coordinated by Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE).…