Forests News
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Getting landscape approaches off the ground, on the ground
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives…
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Rights in the DRC: What’s getting in the way?
At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, the Forest Principles sent a clear message to governments: to preserve forests better,…
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Back to the future: Sketching out oil palm scenarios to 2035
We may not yet be able to time travel, but data modeling can help us to make more educated guesses…
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Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents 48% of the total agricultural land use.…
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Before a landscape approach, an integrative initiative to try
At the landscape level, tackling one problem invariably involves trade-offs with another. For instance, expanding smallholder oil palm production in…
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A look at unseen meadows
Blame it on the fact that we’re visual creatures, but while mangroves, salt marshes and other coastal ecosystems are growing…
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Turning finance blue
The U.S. was uncooperative at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, and President George H.W. Bush lost a…
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Governing blue carbon – and all that it entails
The banks of the Ciliwung River are not grounds for Jakarta’s most desired real estate, as is the case for…
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Intersectionality is important for forests too
Aristocrats are like the enduring ironwoods, and commoners are like the strangling fig that kills. And yet, when Center for…
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Repositioning forests in rural economic development
Every time we pick out a new end table or order a burger, there could be an impact on forests.…
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A brief explainer of the blue economy
Carbon-rich coastal ecosystems are rocketing to the forefront of global actions on climate change, and uncomfortable terms like “plastic oceans”…
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Forests: The greenest pastures?
How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on the environment? In sub-Saharan Africa, the answer…
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Increasing competitivity of projects from Central Africa for better financing
Dominique Xavio Imbabazi is an engineer in Kigali, Rwanda with a keen passion for smart agriculture and environmentally friendly solutions.…
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Gaharu: A migration story
When the “gaharu rush” began, the migrants came in their hundreds. Suddenly, in the interior of North Kalimantan in Indonesian…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means talking about the specific role of women…
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