Forests News
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Realizing the potential of sustainable wood fuel value chains
A visit to a home in sub-Saharan Africa, from Namibia to Niger, will likely reveal a common feature: a fireplace…
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Supporting Indigenous peoples to restore the balance between wildlife and food security
“There used to be a lot of wildlife here in my father’s and grandfather’s time: deer, tapir, capybara and peccaries,”…
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Despite size, Congo Basin attracts less funding than other major forest areas
The Congo Basin is home to the second largest tropical forest in the world, but it is well behind Southeast…
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Kapuas Hulu diary: Resolving land-use conflicts for better land-use outcomes
Augusta Anandi is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate with the Collaborating to Operationalize Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability…
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Pooling knowledge in tropical landscapes key to resilience
The active involvement of everyone living and working in a tropical landscape – from local communities and governments to the…
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Pragmatics take precedence in scientific approach to landscape restoration
Landscape restoration and adaptation are a journey not a destination, said Ravi Prabhu, deputy director general of research at World…
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Planning a sustainable future for Rupununi fisheries in Guyana
The vast savannah in Guyana’s southern Rupununi region has varying moods. From April through August, the rainy season, it turns…
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Rupununi region in Guyana rides ecotourism wave
Tourism in Guyana’s southern Rupununi region has long been a small business aimed at foreign visitors. But growing demand for…
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As pollinators, bats play key role in large-scale durian production in Indonesia
As the main pollinators of the stinky but popular durian fruit, bats make a significant contribution to the local economy…
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Getting Ethiopia REDD+ ready
Forest protection is not usually a huge money spinner. Logging, mining, clearing forests for grazing, or building a new city…
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Trees and water: Don’t underestimate the connection
Trees have extraordinary powers. They provide shade, cool the local climate, draw carbon dioxide from the air, and can repair…
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Sustainability can be an advantage for Indonesia
Indonesia – The long-awaited rains have finally arrived in parts of Indonesia devastated by forest and peatland fires, bringing relief…
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Award recognizes CIFOR’s Terry Sunderland for landmark research defining forest-food nexus
A top international scientist who has advanced the application of the landscapes approach to conservation and development research while introducing…
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Esther Mwangi, researcher on gender and forest property rights, dies at 53
Esther Mwangi, an environmentalist, public policy expert, scholar and mentor whose research explored gender and land-rights inequities in relation to…
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Why Blue Carbon needs to be on the climate agenda
Carbon stored in mangroves and wetlands (known as blue carbon) is playing an increasingly prominent role in discussions about the…
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