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Does funding to integrate conservation and development go where it is most needed?
Over the past few decades, initiatives that aim to integrate conservation goals and development targets at a landscape scale have…
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Evidence base still weak, despite popularity of integrated landscape approaches
As the concept and principles of integrated landscape approaches (ILA) become increasingly popular, researchers and practitioners must consider not only…
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No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming
Terry Sunderland, a collaborating author of the Nature article “Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests,” is…
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Getting landscape approaches off the ground, on the ground
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives…
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Addressing the dangers of degraded land
Up to 1.3 billion people are now living on degraded land, at risk of food and water shortages and worsening…
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Forests sustaining agriculture?
CIFOR and its partners recently completed a near three-year review process that examines how forests and trees can support, or…
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COP22 Special: What does the landscape approach look like in practice?
What are integrated landscape approaches and how do we put them in practice on the ground? These questions – important…
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The landscape approach: How did we get here and where do we want to go? Just ask Darwin!
Charles Darwin’s theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest were initially derided and rejected, leading Darwin himself to…
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How landscape approaches can help achieve the SDGs – in three (challenging) steps
The concept of “landscapes”, in relation to achieving more sustainable land use and reaping the abundant associated benefits for food…
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Global dry forests: Time to take notice
Almost four years ago, CIFOR organized a side event on the tropical dry forests of Africa at the United Nations…
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Monty Python and tropical forests. Really?
In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and…
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‘Landscape approach’ defies simple definition — and that’s good
The terms “landscapes,” “landscape approaches” and “integrated landscape management,” among similar “landscape-focused” terminology, underpin much of the discourse in contemporary…
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Forests and food security: back on the global agenda
Recent news headlines, a plethora of scientific publications and the creation of new academic think tanks all reflect growing concerns…
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BEST OF 2012: Going once, going twice…the great green land grab
BOGOR, Indonesia (17 September 2012)_“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore!” Mark Twain’s wry observation on the North American land…
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What open access science research could mean for the developing world
BOGOR, Indonesia (24 September, 2012)_The British government recently unveiled plans to make all publicly funded scientific research available to anyone…
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