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These questions were raised at a recent national stakeholders workshop co-organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and…

Industrial-scale planted forests are broadening the scope of their products from a traditional focus on timber toward bioenergy, and even…

Large-scale tree plantations are expanding worldwide, and so are the controversies they trigger. Tree plantations in the tropics are frequently…

Large-scale mono-culture plantations have been criticized for a bevy of reasons: land grabbing, forest destruction, poor environmental services, unfair distribution…

The loss of old-growth tropical forest area through fire and agricultural expansion has for decades challenged many of the sustainability…

A few years ago, “carbon cowboys” arrived in the forests of Papua New Guinea and announced to the perplexed Papuans…