Amazon
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Owning the Amazon: Individual titles might not be the answer
Holding formal individual property rights is widely seen as a boon for reducing poverty, conflict and environmental degradation. But in…
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One wicked problem, three major challenges
To achieve zero deforestation, new ties need to be woven between different levels of government, the private sector and civil…
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Timber vs. Brazil nut: The Amazon’s harvest dilemma
It’s a huge question for thousands of smallholders with Brazil nut concessions in the Amazon: Does timber harvesting affect the…
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‘Conservation matters, but we cannot ignore people’s needs’
Why is it important to see if timber can be harvested in Brazil nut areas? Why don’t we just leave…
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A little logging may go a long way
In one corner is the Brazil nut, the most economically important non-timber forest product in the Amazon Basin. It supports…
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The Atlantic Ocean holds the key to western Amazon rainfall
In 2010, catastrophic fires ravaged huge tracts of the western Amazon, a region of rainforest that until just a few…
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Can farmers be forest custodians in the Amazon?
Agricultural activity and forest conservation have often had an antagonistic relationship and are usually discussed in terms of how the…
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Best predictor of severe fires in the Western Amazon? Drought
Drought is a better predictor of Amazonian fire frequency and severity than the extent of forest cover or other vegetation…
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Frontier expansion: Lessons from Bolivia and Pará, Brazil.
Land tenure rights have been widely considered as key to improving environmental governance. In the Brazilian state of Pará, and…
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That tricky gender thing: Lessons from Amazonia
There are enormous gaps in our knowledge about how gender relations shape the lives of people living in the forests…
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Health is in the dish: bush meat or tinned meat?
LIMA, Peru—In the rural border areas where Colombia, Peru and Brazil converge, bushmeat provides nutrition and a strong connection with…
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Money buys happiness? New study says think again about those assumptions
Conventional wisdom has long held that for people who have the least, money matters much more than it does for…
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Protected: Following the REDD+ money
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It’s a forest, not a ‘museum’: What sustainable development means in the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—A tropical forest: A habitat for wildlife, untouched by humans? Or trees ripe to be cleared for profit? Or…
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Sustainable Development Goals and forestry: Lessons from Peru
LIMA, Peru—A decade ago, forests along the Ampiyacu River in northeastern Peru were being logged, hunted and fished unsustainably by…
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