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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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From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires
When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the uncontrolled forest fires in eastern Bolivia near…
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How a coffee rust epidemic escalated in Chiapas, Mexico
The thought that climate change is threatening our daily cup of coffee might be too much to bear for some…
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Collaborating for the Commons
As the environment changes around us, finding solutions to benefit the common good has never been more pressing. Enter multi-stakeholder…
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Now the IPCC knows it too, climate change can’t be solved without rights
Yesterday, the day before Indigenous Day, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included indigenous rights in its Special…
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Why there’s more to ecological restoration than ecology
In August 2017 Paula Meli, a restoration ecologist and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, flew to…
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What Peru’s government officials think of collective titling
To legally obtain title to their community lands, indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon must navigate a maze of legal…
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Review of large-scale tree plantations suggests need to consider socioeconomic impacts
A systematic review of the available literature has found that large-scale tree plantations require more consideration of the socioeconomic impacts on…
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Recognition of indigenous territories as a REDD+ strategy: An example from the Peruvian Amazon
A recent Rights and Resources report provides strong evidence on the importance of recognizing and protecting indigenous rights towards mitigating…
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Mexico’s REDD+ still highly centralized
Mexico was among the first countries to launch a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation…
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