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Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts
For generations, women in West Africa have produced shea butter for home consumption and to sell for use in cosmetics…
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Ensuring REDD+ finance delivers fair finance and benefits to meet climate goals
Establishing standards for measuring, monitoring and assigning financial value to forest-related greenhouse gas emissions is a challenging process due to…
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Women’s land tenure a critical pillar for climate action, COP26 delegates say
Worldwide, fewer than 15 percent of landholders are women, a disparity that has significant consequences for the general status and…
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Finding the sweet spot: How to scale up and finance ecosystem-based adaptation
Protecting and restoring landscapes and building sustainable agroforestry systems is a powerful way to boost resilience to climate change and…
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Legal hubs help identify gaps to support sustainable wildlife management
Wildlife provides a vital source of protein and generates income for millions of forest-dwelling communities in tropical and subtropical regions.…
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COP26 corridors: Conversations on climate action
Scientists with the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) participated in more than 30 events on the…
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Biomass energy brings clean electricity to remote Indonesian islands
Indonesia is an energy-rich country, but electricity poor, a situation that Jaya Wahono is determined to change. As director of…
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Pact prioritizes forests and biodiversity conservation in Papua New Guinea
Protecting the habitat of the largest butterfly in the world – the endangered Queen Alexandra’s birdwing – is a number…
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COP26 deforestation pledges a win, but only if they are upheld
Forestry experts are applauding an agreement made in a joint statement on Monday by more than 130 countries at the…
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Spotlight on forests at COP26, a big step forward for climate talks
In the minds of many observers and environmentalists, the outcome of the upcoming U.N. COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is…
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Boost funding and strategically align incentives with climate goals to save forests
Forests are under massive threat worldwide, planet warming emissions are trending upward and, despite their essential role and potential, governments…
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Keep fossil fuels in focus while talking forests and trees at COP26, says forestry expert
Putting land use issues — including deforestation, reforestation and restoration — front and center at the U.N. COP26 climate summit…
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Better support for local communities can boost reforestation efforts in Ethiopia
Tree planting in Ethiopia presents opportunities, but also poses unique challenges for local communities. Limited opportunities to influence decisions about…
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Deforestation from road expansion jeopardizes ecosystems in Indonesian New Guinea
The vast forests of the world’s largest tropical island are populated by exotic birds of paradise, kingfishers, parrots, raptors and…
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Shaping a future that ensures women are at the center of the Ghana shea trade
Women have harvested shea nuts from trees in the savanna region of northern Ghana for centuries, using the rich oils…
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