Forests News
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Scientific coalition offers specifics to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The group of 50, who are part of bioDISCOVERY, which is a global research network of Future Earth, and the…
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Our food systems are failing. Can trees and forests dish up better diets for everyone?
Despite all of the technological and informational advancements of recent decades, we’ve so far failed to feed our global population…
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Biodiversity science–policy panel calls for broadening value-of-nature concepts in sustainable development
The Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) approved the Summary for Policy Makers of the Assessment Report…
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Can multi-stakeholder platforms and partnerships live up to their promise?
Multi-stakeholder platforms and partnerships, which bring together people from different interest groups to discuss shared challenges, opportunities, policy actions and…
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Informal trade in charcoal and firewood in Africa creates need for sustainable approach
As demand for charcoal and other wood energy soars in Central Africa, with wide-ranging consequences for biodiversity and local communities,…
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Peatland restoration: connecting science with policy and practice
Peatland restoration is a potential solution for eradicating fires and accompanying toxic haze, reducing the loss of biodiversity and achievement…
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One commodity, seven countries – and multiple impacts for legal timber
In the wake of the UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in late 2021, a series of legal instruments aimed…
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Multi-stakeholder platforms set to resolve land-use conflicts in northern Ghana
From farmers and chiefs through local NGOs to government, stakeholders in Ghana’s Western Wildlife Corridor brought their concerns about autonomy,…
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Huge potential for sustainability with natural rubber, experts say
Natural rubber is one of the four main global commodities produced from trees. Predominantly harvested by smallholders, the industry sustains…
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Addressing five global challenges that will shape our future
As the international community lifts its head above the chaos wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic and sets its sights on…
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Collective payments for ecosystem services: a promising policy tool to reduce deforestation?
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes are often used as a tool to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in tropical…
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How bioenergy can help restore landscapes and livelihoods
Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country by population and its demand for energy is also huge and growing. The…
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Landscape Partnership Asia: restoring drylands and drought-prone areas
His Excellency Minister of Korea Forest Service Choi Byeong Am officially launched the Landscape Partnership Asia, the world’s largest programme…
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Selfies for sustainability?
You might not have heard of Mangunan Forest in Indonesia’s province of Yogyakarta, but chances are you’ve seen it. Selfies…
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