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Once ‘invisible,’ Africa’s domestic loggers come into the light
KATIOLA, Côte d’Ivoire—Mr. Aboubakar, who has been working as a carpenter in his native Côte d’Ivoire for the past 25…
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How are trees good for us? ‘Sentinels’ may hold the answer
NAIROBI, Kenya—It’s a unique, massive—and massively ambitious—research initiative, spanning nine landscapes across 20 countries on three continents. It involves scores…
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Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’
One forest, myriad functions. The pressure on Kenya’s Mau Forest and the land-use changes occurring in and around it are…
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Outside a national park, agroforestry helping to save forests inside the park
NAIROBI, Kenya—It’s one of the most spectacular places on Earth—a World Heritage site that hosts a trove of biodiversity including…
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Research in Central Africa finds troubling gaps in knowledge of climate change
NAIROBI, Kenya—Policymakers working on forests and climate change in Central Africa often lack knowledge of fundamental concepts of those issues,…
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Development miracle or environmental disaster? A look behind the oil palm controversy
NAIROBI, Kenya — To the agro-food industry and smallholder farmers in the tropics, it’s a veritable miracle plant. To many…
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‘Don’t confuse the crop with the people who develop it’: Q&A with palm oil researcher
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Boycotts of palm oil because of deforestation wrongly place blame on the crop itself, a leading researcher…
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Coming to terms with terminology: Seeking ‘gray literature’ on landscapes
NAIROBI, Kenya — What on Earth does “integrated landscape management” mean? If you ask 78 different scientists, you just might…
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Certifying logging concessions certifies social benefits in Congo Basin
When it comes to sustaining forests so that they can sustain people, forest certification has been heralded as an important…
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Crop diversity can sweeten the deal for African cocoa farmers
The video is fittingly bittersweet. In a short film now making the rounds on the Internet, a journalist for Dutch…
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Once there was a lake: Study highlights complexity of vulnerability to environmental change
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Life had always been precarious for the pastoralists, fishers and farmers near Lake Faguibine, west of…
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Report dispels perceptions about artisanal logging, milling in Congo Basin
Small-scale logging and milling in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not uniformly fraudulent nor unsustainable, new research has…
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