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Climate change needs a new kind of scientist
Scientific discoveries of recent decades have generated a wealth of knowledge on forests and climate change spanning many different sectors…
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BEST OF 2013, POLEX: Should the media pay for wildlife conservation?
Editor’s Note: CIFOR’s wide-ranging research in 2013 made it a busy year for Forests News. From Brazil nuts to board…
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BEST OF 2013, POLEX: “Economist” response, Verchot and Angelsen
Editor’s Note: CIFOR’s wide-ranging research in 2013 made it a busy year for Forests News. From Brazil nuts to board…
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BEST OF 2013, POLEX: Can rural women also have it all?
Editor’s Note: CIFOR’s wide-ranging research in 2013 made it a busy year for Forests News. From Brazil nuts to board…
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BEST OF 2013: Forests as rainmakers
Editor’s Note: CIFOR’s wide-ranging research in 2013 made it a busy year for Forests News. From Brazil nuts to board…
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BEST OF 2013: Is forest certification working?
Editor’s Note: As the year winds to an end, we are revisiting Forests News’ most popular articles of 2013. CIFOR’s…
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Time to ‘connect the dots’ among gender, forests, REDD+, experts say
WARSAW, Poland (20 December 2013) — Despite the large quantity of climate-change research focused on adaptation, mitigation and gender, not…
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Toss clichés aside and consider gender in ‘landscape’ context — expert
WARSAW, Poland (18 December 2013) — Crafting development strategies based on credible research results rather than relying on outdated, unsubstantiated…
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Re-thinking investment in landscapes to aid sustainable development
WARSAW, Poland (17 December 2013) — As scientists strategize about how best to introduce a holistic, “landscapes” approach to balance…
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Degradation: When is a forest no longer a forest?
As countries ponder incentives to slow the degradation of their tropical forests, a huge, unanswered question looms: What exactly is…
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‘Landscapes approach’ dovetails with REDD+, scientist says
WARSAW, Poland — A proposal to alleviate deforestation could benefit greatly from a cross-sectoral, holistic approach to land management, according…
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Use Hansen high-res forest cover maps wisely, experts say
At a glance: New paper by Hansen et al., can visualize changes in forest cover at 30m resolution Can help…
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The “COP for forests”: A summary of the Warsaw decisions
At a glance: Mitigation: “REDD+ package” of 7 decisions on finance, institutions and methodologies Adaptation: Funds pledged, support for vulnerable…
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Scientists urge tact in crafting forest governance systems
Forest governance often means addressing the inconsistencies of land, tree and resource management, a process that can be complicated by…
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REDD+ highlights tenure problems, but does not solve them
Preparations for a proposed international scheme to pay local users to cut greenhouse gas emissions through reduced deforestation are directing…
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