Ethiopia
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Why gender matters for restoration
Four East Africa country representatives, a handful of restoration implementers, half a dozen scientists and a collection of gender specialists…
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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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COP23 Special: Walking the REDD+ line, talking transformational change
Has REDD+ worked? Many at COP23 asked this question, and those in Bonn who were participating in negotiations, hosting discussions…
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‘Grain for green’: How China is swapping farmland for forest
Since 1999, China has restored forest landscapes across more than 28 million hectares of farmland and land classified as barren…
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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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Forests, farming and food
Amina*, a young mother of four, lives in a rural village in the Oromia region of Southern Ethiopia. At 2,000…
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Using remote sensing to empower local communities in forestry management
The forests of Ethiopia are famous for producing the world’s best coffee. But something else is about to emerge from…
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It takes a village to re-raise a forest
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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Q & A: Lessons from Ethiopia for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part III of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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Regreening Ethiopia
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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10 views on the future of REDD+
It’s been a long and rocky road for the climate change mitigation scheme known as REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from…
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In Ethiopia, jobs might grow on trees
Work on a timber plantation in Ethiopia is tough, with low wages, poor conditions and little security – but at…
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Wild food means good food: CIFOR study
In Tanzania, women supplement their families’ diets by collecting foods that grow wild near their homes. They gather edible species…
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Stoves cook up relief for Ethiopia’s forests, climate
A simple device could spell relief for Ethiopia’s beleaguered forests by making cooking more efficient while reducing carbon emissions, new…
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African farmland investments face governance challenges
(A version of this article appeared previously in The Broker.) The rush for African farmland has created new opportunities for…
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