East Kalimantan
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Governance, not just carbon accounting, is key to jurisdictional REDD+ success
Evidence from Indonesia, Brazil and Peru shows that jurisdictional REDD+ is more likely to succeed when Indigenous Peoples and local…
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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: Indonesia’s game of palms
This article is the second in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes. East Kalimantan…
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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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Backwards from gender equality: Oil palm’s impact on Dayak women
Pe Ligit* has witnessed massive changes in her lifetime, as waves of migration, logging and oil palm development have transformed…
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What do locals think of large-scale tree plantations?
Large-scale tree plantations are expanding worldwide, and so are the controversies they trigger. Tree plantations in the tropics are frequently…
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Traditional livelihoods decline in Borneo forests as communities rely on mining, logging jobs
BOGOR, Indonesia (17 February, 2012)_Forest communities in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province are turning to jobs in mining, agriculture, construction and…
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