Landscapes
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A landscape picture from Cameroon
It’s a daunting challenge whose complexity only continues to intensify: How can we manage the land so that it can…
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An oxymoron is born
I have just left the final session at the XIV World Forestry Congress, where participants discussed the challenges and opportunities…
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Got a minute? Get facts on dry forests … fast
You’ve probably heard a lot about tropical RAIN forests, but how much do you know about tropical DRY forests? This…
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Forestry for a sustainable future: Making a difference beyond agreements
Next week, more than 2,600 forestry experts will travel to the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa. The…
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Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions
Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest. And then – boom! Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber…
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REDD+ in Brazil: Coordination needed. Now
Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry…
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Counting trees: 143 scientists just did
Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on…
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A little-known big producer: Will forest policy reform in Peru support farm-forestry?
Collectively, 20 farming households in a Peruvian Amazon village can easily produce 760 cubic meters of sawn lumber per year…
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A price tag on the environment? That will be $125 trillion a year
BOGOR, Indonesia — Although not a particularly romantic idea, putting a price tag on the natural world is something conservation…
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Social networking for climate change adaptation in Cameroon (and it’s not Twitter)
It has an on-ground social networking system that could be harnessed to spread knowledge about climate change—in much the same…
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‘Forgotten guardians’: Local communities in natural resource management
Late last year, there was publicity about the plight of the San (bushmen) of the Kalahari in Botswana – part…
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Watch and read: Making timber plantations attractive for smallholders
BOGOR, Indonesia — Encouraging Indonesian smallholders to view timber plantations as an attractive business opportunity could have far-reaching economic and…
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Cameroon: a case study of Chinese corporate social responsibility
NAIROBI, Kenya—When a continent as forest rich as Africa becomes the target of direct foreign investment – no matter what…
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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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Green Treasure of the Sahel
In Burkina Faso, in West Africa, deforestation has reduced income and livelihoods. Simple steps have helped families deal with the…
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