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SPECIAL REPORT: How a remote Amazonian state is leading the way in climate change policy
In Brazil’s wild west, a state government is trying to prove that it is possible to safeguard the Amazon –…
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Right of return: Sharing research results with communities
Scientists often tend to privilege presenting their research at conferences, to other scientists, sometimes to policy-makers or the media. But…
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Oil, Roads, Settlers and Timber: Changing landscapes and livelihoods in Ecuador’s Amazon [PHOTO ESSAY]
Oil, Roads, Settlers and Timber: Changing landscapes and livelihoods in Ecuador’s Amazon from CIFOR This story is part of a…
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Scientist Terry Sunderland describes the ‘landscape approach’
In the following interview, Terry Sunderland, a principal scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) defines “landscape approach”–…
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Postcards from the field: Building trust in Ecuador
Bulldozers churn in the mud and block the sticky, bumpy road up ahead as Elena Mejia and Ayme Muzo head…
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From the Amazon to the world: A story of Brazil nuts
From the Amazon to the World: A Story of Brazil nuts by CIFOR
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Snakes, thieves and falling nuts: Challenges of Brazil nut harvesting in Peru
LIMA, Peru (4 June, 2013)_Every wet season in the Western Amazon, Peru’s castañeros (brazil nut concession holders and harvesters) gather…
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Postcards from the Field: Mud, mud, glorious mangroves
Laughing and spraying each other with a hose, Yasuke Okimoto (Oki) and Sigit Deni Sasmito clean up after a long…
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Could sustainable logging save Indonesia’s mangroves?
It sounds counter-intuitive. Indonesia’s vast mangrove forests, CIFOR has recently discovered, are a valuable carbon sink. They shelter unique species,…
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