Forests News
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Waiting for the end of deforestation: Companies must ante up
Toward the end of last year, it seemed as if it should be “all systems go” regarding global ambitions to…
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Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts
For generations, women in West Africa have produced shea butter for home consumption and to sell for use in cosmetics…
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Keeping the momentum going to protect Congo Basin
The world’s second largest tropical rainforest is situated in the Congo Basin in the center of Africa. This lush region…
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Gender dynamics in Ghana’s oil palm processing sector
Known throughout the industry as “oil palm mamas” or “market queens,” women play a competitive role in Ghana’s informal oil…
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Tenure and governance research: Build on accomplishments under PIM to meet SDGs
Secure tenure and effective governance are central to the future of natural resources and agriculture. Although important on their own,…
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Ensuring REDD+ finance delivers fair finance and benefits to meet climate goals
Establishing standards for measuring, monitoring and assigning financial value to forest-related greenhouse gas emissions is a challenging process due to…
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Workshop builds leadership capacity in Indonesian forest sector
Pak Ongko, a 77-year-old farmer and fisherman, used to make a reliable living from the Butini fish (Glossogobius matanensis) and…
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Meet the farmers and scientists collaborating to restore Kenya’s degraded grasslands
Hellen Atieno Owuor remembers a time when farming goats and cattle in the sub-humid eastern highlands of Kenya was a…
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Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods?
Titling Indigenous territories has been discussed in global fora as an essential tool to promote forest conservation. Activism by Indigenous…
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Scientists urge action as Gambian livestock grazing puts forests at risk
Herders moving within Gambia and across the country’s borders into Senegal in search of pasture inadvertently threaten forests and the…
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Wildlife clubs teach children in Guyana’s Rupununi about life and livelihoods
A box of chocolates seems completely out of place as a tool for teaching kids about wildlife, but Susan George…
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Deforestation pledge redux: Reflections on “forest loss” as dust settles on Glasgow summit
The Glasgow leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use made at the COP26 summit on climate change and endorsed by…
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Sustainable trade and peatland management for emissions reduction and community livelihoods
Growing and trading commodities while protecting and sustainably managing forests and other natural ecosystems from agricultural encroachment is crucial for…
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Women’s land tenure a critical pillar for climate action, COP26 delegates say
Worldwide, fewer than 15 percent of landholders are women, a disparity that has significant consequences for the general status and…
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Chickens and cattle a gateway for economic diversification and wildlife protection
Guyana’s Rupununi region is home to spectacular landscapes and exotic animals, where visitors hope to glimpse giant anteaters and armadillos.…
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