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Ripple effect: Shifting gender norms in Kenyan forest restoration
Gender dynamics can be critical to the success or failure of forest landscape restoration (FLR) efforts. Roles and relations dictated…
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In Cameroon, centring women in landscape restoration
Sustainable landscape management is a local and global necessity. Rising demand from growing populations and economies is putting increasing pressure…
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Indigenous rights recognition a “work in progress” in Central Africa
Legal recognition of the rights of local communities and Indigenous people – including nomadic herders and hunter-gatherers, who are highly…
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New strategies needed to uproot deep barriers to land, resource rights for women
From climate change to deforestation to biodiversity loss, global challenges are significantly worsened by barriers limiting land and resource rights…
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Are REDD+ safeguards supporting community land, resource, and carbon rights?
There is growing evidence of the critical role that Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs) play in the effective…
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How qualitative data analysis can serve women’s resource rights in Ethiopia
“Working on gender issues requires the ability to understand questions such as ‘why’ and ‘how’,” said Stibniati Atmadja, a CIFOR-ICRAF…
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Nourishing leadership: Why gender matters in development science
As a food and nutrition scientist in CIFOR-ICRAF, Mulia Nurhasan leads the execution of the food and nutrition component of environmental…
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How to balance the needs of both humans and wildlife?
Wild mammals, reptiles, birds and insects are eaten by people worldwide. But overhunting – driven mainly by the demand for wild…
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Realities of doing science in remote rainforests: The Karaawaimin Taawa Biodiversity Assessment
When ecological research makes its way onto a peer-reviewed page – in the form, perhaps, of a species list or…
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A new deal for nature?
Well, they got there. After years-long delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a relocation from Kunming, China to Montreal, Canada,…
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Ten criteria for understanding the recognition of and respect for community rights
Seven safeguard principles for REDD+ were adopted at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on…
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Analysis of rights and REDD+ safeguards
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and enhancement…
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