Forests News
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Ecosystems Are Key to Climate Change Adaptation
By Angela Dewan Communities in developing countries that depend directly on ecosystems will be among the first and worst affected…
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REDD+ and Rural Communities: Threat or Opportunity?
One of the “hot-button” issues surrounding REDD+ that will no doubt generate heated debate at the United Nations Conference on…
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Bridging the Divide between the Forestry and Financial Worlds
While it is true that trees do not grow just on money but under carefully crafted governance conditions, REDD+ funding…
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Money Alone Can’t Save the Forests
REDD+ was conceived primarily as a financial mechanism for reducing carbon emissions caused by forest destruction. So, logically the negotiations…
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Forest Community Capitalism
Land tenure reforms in Mexico during the last century – which coincided with a global trend toward devolution of forest…
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The Risks and Rewards of REDD+
While opinions vary about what exactly good forest governance means, participants in the Oaxaca workshop dealing with this…
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Leading by Example on the Road to Cancún
The success of any major endeavor depends to a large degree on leadership, and REDD+ is no exception. Showing remarkable…
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Tropical Biodiversity: An Economic Asset
By Angela Dewan There is constant debate about how to balance economic development and conservation. In reality, conservation…
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Grooming Future Foresters
By Angela Dewan Forestry scientists get a bad wrap for past mistakes, according to Chair of the Program…
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Biofuels: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
By Angela Dewan Last decade, biofuels were talked about among world leaders like the deus ex machina of…
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Complex Answers to Complex Problems
By Angela Dewan As CIFOR’s Director-General Frances Seymour pointed out on Tuesday in her keynote speech, there…
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Forest Management That Reflects Diversity
By Angela Dewan Earlier today, Verina Ingram of CIFOR, Cameroon, spoke about the overemphasis on timber in forest…
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Seeing the Forest for More Than Trees
By Angela Dewan It’s easy to look at a table and forget it was once a tree. As the Korean…
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The Magic of Mangroves
By Angela Dewan The thick mangroves of the tropics offer local communities a number of services and products.…
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Think Big, Think Quickly
By Angela Dewan “Whether REDD will be effective is the hottest question in the forest and climate change…
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