forests
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U.N. green cities initiative to promote forestry and sustainable food systems
A new green cities initiative will encourage governments to kickstart large-scale transformative changes to improve food security, nutrition and the…
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Shaping up forest and landscape restoration initiatives
Making forest and landscape restoration a reality is an enormous challenge, but researchers are confident that international ecosystem restoration targets…
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Men in forests: New book shatters stereotypes
In the early years of her career, ethnographer Carol J. Pierce Colfer observed the various cultures she studied from the…
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Q+A: Restore landscapes to cure planet, says author of ‘The Reindeer Chronicles’
On the cusp of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), the time is ripe to pause and ruminate, to…
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Survey shows potential impact of palm trees in quantifying rainforest carbon
Palm trees are more than five times more numerous in such neotropical rainforests as the Amazon than in the large-scale…
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Forests can help reshape ‘dysfunctional’ global food system, scientists say
Although many modeling forecasts and government policies suggest that forests must be destroyed to make way for agriculture and provide…
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Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize…
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Unlocking the power of entrepreneurship to promote local development in forest communities
Yangambi, located in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was once a lush tropical forest landscape, home to bountiful wildlife…
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CIFOR annual report brings impact of 2019 forest research efforts into focus
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has honed its capacity to transform research into change, according to its 2019…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degradation are major drivers of the emergence…
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Connecting the people growing a trillion trees the right way
Everyone is talking about trees. In January, the World Economic Forum founded the Trillion Trees initiative (1t.org), an effort to…
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In their own words: COLANDS and landscape collaboration during COVID-19
Family interruptions, poor Internet access, concern for contacts in the field and broad uncertainty — these are just a few…
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Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing human population, said primatologist Jane…
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UK’s Prince Charles, CIFOR’s Nasi see forests as green infrastructure for new economy
Forests have fueled economies and furnished societies with building materials, food and energy for millennia. Now, as the world seeks…
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Defining the role of forests, trees, agroforestry to help curb COVID-19 food crisis
The emergence of the coronavirus has put the world on the brink of a major famine, according to the World…
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