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Forests in policy: A tale of three clusters
From providing clean water to sustaining agriculture and regulating the climate, forests have an important role to play in advancing…
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Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents 48% of the total agricultural land use.…
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How to take forest landscape restoration to the next level
Governments around the world have pledged over 150 million hectares of forested land for restoration, but only five million have…
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A first – and hard – look at restoring Mexico’s terrestrial ecosystems
Mexico is home to vast biological and cultural diversity, alongside a robust legal framework and body of research on biological…
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Using the ‘four powers’ to tackle land use dilemmas
Exclusion from land is inherently negative. A handful of actors hold all the power to control relations around land use.…
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Justice glitches and technical fixes in conservation projects
In the last decade, ambitious initiatives have been launched to address climate change and development – the Paris Agreement and…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long enough for it to recharge…
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From paper to reality: The task of restoring Latin America’s forest landscapes
Latin America has committed to restoring 27.7 million hectares of forest landscapes by 2020 under the Bonn Challenge — but…
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Land rights essential for peace in Colombia
Recognition of collective land tenure rights in Colombia is among the strongest in Latin America: there has been constitutional backing…
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What mountain forests do for human well-being
Mountain forest ecosystems provide a wide range of benefits, not only to local residents, but to those living downstream: from…
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