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“Dragons” urge youth to take the reins of power and solve forestry and agriculture problems
LIMA, Peru—Young people in forestry don’t want to be thought of as the ‘future’ but be involved in important discussions…
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Paula Caballero: See Sustainable Development Goals through landscapes prism
LIMA, Peru—Paula Caballero, Senior Director of Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank, says the United Nations…
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Rachel Kyte’s challenge for science: make landscape approaches easy for countries to use
Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank Group, says the scientific and civil…
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At COP20: REDD+ emerging—or REDD+ emergency?
LIMA, Peru—The concept of reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—REDD+—is stagnating, although innovations at the sub-national level give…
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REDD+ on the ground: Unintended consequences in ‘a microcosm of the Amazon’
BOGOR, Indonesia—When Brazilian researcher Maria Fernanda Gebara thinks of her first visit to the Amazon municipality São Félix do Xingu…
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Survey highlights REDD+ controversies over community monitoring
LIMA, Peru—Responses to a survey about community forest monitoring and benefit sharing highlight some of the controversies and philosophical sticking…
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REDD+ on the ground: For one initiative in Indonesia, politics in the peatlands
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s a cautionary tale. The experience of a highly politicized carbon emissions reduction initiative in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province…
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REDD+ on the ground: New book offers insights, lessons from across the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo,…
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Unlikely partner could boost ‘best deal’ for protecting forests, slowing climate change
NEW YORK — A declaration by the governors of 21 tropical states and provinces announced recently at the United Nations…
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Unequal power dynamics in landscape approaches must not be ignored, expert warns
NEW YORK—Social inequality is also part of the landscape—and so must be accounted for in landscape approaches to managing agriculture…
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