Forests News
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How to build resilient landscapes and livelihoods in refugee settings
Sub-Saharan Africa currently hosts 6.3 million refugees, a number which has grown from 2.2 million in a decade, according to…
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Adapting to a changing climate with forests and agroforestry
The ability of forests and trees to mitigate and adapt to climate change is affected by various policies, often under…
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Lessons from Zambia on promoting sustainable wood fuel management
In Zambia, around 90 percent of domestic energy derives from wood fuel in both urban and rural areas. But with…
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Craft policies that jointly address biodiversity and climate crises, report says
Think before you plant. Randomly planting trees in ecosystems that have never been forests and reforesting with monoculture species can…
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Farmers benefit from planting rubber and nut trees in agroforestry systems
By using an “agent-based” computer model to examine the relationships between agroforestry, livelihoods and the environment in Indonesia, researchers learned…
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A line in the sand: Dryland restoration for a food secure future
Fortifying dryland ecosystems in Africa against degradation and desertification is crucial to avoid exacerbating the risks of widespread food insecurity…
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The enormous challenge and opportunity of land restoration
Of all the negative things that humans have inflicted on the planet, the deliberate removal of forest cover ranks among…
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OPAL Project: Shaping pathways toward sustainable palm oil production
When the Swiss government called a referendum in March this year over whether to sign a free trade agreement with…
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Try tree regeneration, not tree planting
With all those well-meaning efforts to plant trees out there, alarm is justifiably being raised that sometimes, those trees will…
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Not clear cut: Scientists and journalists pursue a nuanced perspective on palm oil
Palm oil has long been a polarizing topic in national and international media – frequently painted either as a critical…
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Q+A: Raising the value of a mangrove forest in Colombia
Earlier this month, a mangrove forest in Cispatá on the northern edge of Colombia’s Caribbean coast became part of a…
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Wrong way to chocolate: Turn back now
At a recent gathering of leading researchers and practitioners in the cocoa sector, main topics of discussion included the continuing…
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Agroforestry scale-up a promising prospect for fragile ecosystems and livelihoods in Nepal
Nepal’s Chure region, which comprises the “youngest mountains in the world” is a critical biodiversity habitat and the main watershed…
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Women entrepreneurs in DRC recover waste wood to produce clean cooking fuel
For almost a decade, Fatouma Otoke has been running a small business that recovers waste wood for charcoal production. Her…
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