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Palm oil, coffee and songbirds: Toward sustainable trade in Indonesia
Economic interconnectivity – including through international trade — is a mainstay of modern life, delivering life-changing and -saving goods and…
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REDD+ in DRC: Platform explores next steps for forest carbon, restoration and rights
At COP26 climate change negotiations in Glasgow last year, the role of forests in capturing and storing carbon was high…
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Workshop builds leadership capacity in Indonesian forest sector
Pak Ongko, a 77-year-old farmer and fisherman, used to make a reliable living from the Butini fish (Glossogobius matanensis) and…
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Meet the farmers and scientists collaborating to restore Kenya’s degraded grasslands
Hellen Atieno Owuor remembers a time when farming goats and cattle in the sub-humid eastern highlands of Kenya was a…
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OPAL Project: Shaping pathways toward sustainable palm oil production
When the Swiss government called a referendum in March this year over whether to sign a free trade agreement with…
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Not clear cut: Scientists and journalists pursue a nuanced perspective on palm oil
Palm oil has long been a polarizing topic in national and international media – frequently painted either as a critical…
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Agroforestry scale-up a promising prospect for fragile ecosystems and livelihoods in Nepal
Nepal’s Chure region, which comprises the “youngest mountains in the world” is a critical biodiversity habitat and the main watershed…
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Reducing haze and protecting peatlands in the digital age
At a recent workshop, 83 key stakeholders gathered with “Measurable Action for Haze-Free Sustainable Land Management in Southeast Asia” (MAHFSA)…
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Crowd-sourced – but from whom? Profiling citizen scientists in a Kenyan water monitoring project
In the Sondu-Miriu river basin in Western Kenya, locals are sometimes seen pulling out their cellphones as they pass water…
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Pongamia: Potential benefits for restoration and bioenergy in Indonesia
Its native stomping-ground stretches across a broad swathe of Asia and the Pacific – from India in the west to…
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