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Tenure reform: Lessons from the Global South
Over the past two decades, a global trend has seen increasing recognition of the rights of communities and local governments…
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Voices of women in palm oil
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, CIFOR and partners held a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on ‘Governing oil palm…
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Gender and oil palm
Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil, churning out an estimated 33 million tons in 2016. Needless…
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Gender relations in forestry: beyond a headcount
The land boundary dispute with the neighboring village had gone on for years. But Aditi*, the 60-something female president of…
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What’s on CIFOR’s holiday reading list?
With holidays approaching, now is the time to catch up on those articles, books and films missed out on over a…
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Gender relations in community forestry
Can field-based practitioners use Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) as an effective way to enhance women’s participation in natural resource management?…
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Rural women across the globe: Linking livelihoods and landscapes
We need to care about rural women. For one, they comprise a quarter of the world’s population. In developing countries,…
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Unpacking migration and gender in Nepal’s community forests
The importance of migration to rural livelihoods in Nepal is not being recognized in forestry policy or by donors –…
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Hunters, gatherers and all those gender roles
Inside the community center in the village of Roya, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, scientist Dawn Rodríguez-Ward hangs pie charts…
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“We” have a deal
Ursula Rakova is from the Carteret Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea. For Rakova and the community of…
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Migration: What happens to the people (and forests) left behind?
By leaving their rural communities and sending money back home, migrants in tropical forest countries are changing not only the…
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Gender: It’s about men, too
Drawing on evidence from literature and their experiences implementing and studying value chains, 30 people sitting together at the XIV World…
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