Forests News
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International Year of Forests: Reason to be optimistic
This week the United Nations launches the International Year of Forests (IYF), and indeed 2011 begins with the future of…
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Commons in flux, commons under threat
At the International Association for the Study of the Commons biennial conference in Hyderabad, reports on research in three continents…
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Follow the money or follow the logs?
It’s easy to point fingers at a particular country’s illegal log trade, but we need to keep in mind that…
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Institutions should facilitate local forest monitoring
For many policy analysts and scholars, turning forest management over to governments, particularly as protected areas, is one way to…
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Agriculture and Forests: From Sparing to Sharing
Nathan Russell, CIMMYT Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation, so it is simply too important to be ignored in…
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Reflections from a south-south exchange: what works in sustainable and equitable oil palm development for food and biofuels?
BOGOR, Indonesia (15 December, 2011)_Last September, CIFOR Research Domain 5 on “Managing the impacts of globalized trade and investment on…
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How can bamboo reduce vulnerability to climate change, while providing income for local communities?
By Tim Cronin, INBAR Cancun, Mexico, 1st December, 2010: As negotiators struggle to break the north-south deadlock on climate change…
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The Joy of Forest Day
By Robert Gibson, Hong Kong After the gloom of ocean acidification, Forest Day was a joyful experience. Here were around…
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Development or climate change; development while solving climate change
By Beverly Natividad The way climate change is often reported it seems like it is an issue that clashes with…
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A REDD+ Deal Likely to Be Made This Week
By Angela Dewan CIFOR scientist Louis Verchot gives an update on REDD+ negotiations in Cancun. He says a REDD+ framework…
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Debunking the Myths of a REDD+ Market
By Angela Dewan A binding deal on the REDD+ scheme to conserve the world’s forests has never been so close.…
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