Cameroon
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Shaping a pan-African forest-landscape restoration exchange
by Malin Elsen, Sven Schuppener, Désiré Tchigankong and Joary Niaina Andriamiharimanana Two weeks after Malagasy Forest Landscape Restoration experts came…
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Congo Basin: Unraveling the past to predict the future
Congolese researchers Chadrack Kafuti and Nestor Luambua know what it takes to get into the least-known tropical forest in the…
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The Congo Basin: palm oil’s next frontier
Palm oil’s legacy in Southeast Asia is visible from space. The region accounts for 87 percent of global production. Borneo,…
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Can DRC’s community forests lift people out of poverty?
In the quest to reduce poverty, community forestry is an attractive endeavor. So much so that multiple countries with tropical…
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Working toward a better wood fuel energy sector in Africa
Wood fuel, used either directly as firewood or transformed into charcoal, is the main source of energy for cooking for…
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Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents 48% of the total agricultural land use.…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood they buy, but a growing number of…
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10 years on, tenure remains a challenge for REDD+
It’s now been 10 years since the United Nations launched REDD, an ambitious program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from…
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Oil palm landscapes: Playing the long game with palm oil
This article is the third in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes. It might…
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Oil palm landscapes: Playing for keeps
This article is the first in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes. A group…
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What do forests have to do with food?
What can you cook from parkia seeds and baobab leaves? How about temple plant leaves and shea butter? New research…
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Changing landscapes: From forests to food
The growing demand for food — demand that is expected to double by 2050 — has led to widespread agricultural…
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The forests of Central Africa: A source of wealth to be rediscovered
Although Cameroon has benefitted from sustainable forest management in the past 20 years and has a relatively well-preserved forest cover…
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Community forestry in Central Africa: Has it been a success?
Democratization across much of Africa in the early 1990s not only affected political institutions, but also had repercussions for natural…
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All bark and no bite
We’ve seen it happen before with the trade of crocodiles, snakeskins and orchids — and now, scientists are calling for…
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