governance
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Mozambique resists external pressures and drafts own REDD+ strategy
BOGOR, Indonesia (16 August, 2011)_ Mozambique has taken a “remarkable” approach to reducing deforestation, engaging local communities and other stakeholders…
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Shared management rights not so equal: Forest communities still tied up in state red tape
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (09 August, 2012)_Despite a multitude of land tenure reforms over the past 20 years opening legal…
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Boosting Indonesia’s wetlands science is key to tackling climate change
BOGOR, Indonesia (7 June, 2012)_Greater scientific understanding of Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing carbon-rich wetlands is needed to help mitigate the effects…
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REDD+ without regrets: CIFOR Director General on where to from here
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (05 July 2012)_Until greater certainty about the future of a global scheme to reduce carbon emissions…
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Could new interactive maps help preserve last “roadless” areas?
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (02 July 2012)_A movement aiming to preserve the earth’s last roadless areas hopes their new set…
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Linking the local to the global: REDD+ as a multi-level puzzle
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (29 June 12)_If a UN-backed scheme to slow the pace of climate change by safeguarding the…
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Forests fare poorly in outcomes of Rio+20, say CIFOR scientists
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (26 June, 2012)_Forests have been largely ignored or ambiguously mentioned in the Rio+20 outcome document, yet…
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“A Message of Hope”: Esther Mwangi reflects on her mentor & advisor, Elinor Ostrom
Earlier last week, Nobel Economics Laureate Elinor Ostrom passed away. Here at CIFOR Forests News, we gained a more personal…
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Brazil must go “beyond enforcement” to protect Amazon for Green economy
BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro (18 June 2012)_Strict law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon has seen deforestation rates plummet, yet the…
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One of Indonesia’s top REDD+ experts discusses logging moratorium progress
BOGOR, Indonesia (25 May 2012)_Indonesia’s moratorium on new logging concessions has helped to improve forest governance and seal an…
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In Peruvian Amazon, timber extraction in Brazil nut forests set to rise unless better regulated
LIMA, Peru (24 May, 2012)_ In the Peruvian Amazon, uncontrolled timber extraction from concession forests destined primarily for the harvesting…
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Bonn climate talks: Forest-rich nations need progress on MRV and REDD+ financing
BONN, Germany (16 May 2012)__ Discussions on how mitigation and adaptation funds will be raised and used in the…
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Forests and women – some encouraging signs
One of the first professional positions I held was as a ‘Women in Development Specialist’ in the early 1980s. Despite…
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Mango trees help make food crops in Bangladesh more productive
DHAKA, Bangladesh (4 April, 2012)_Just planting a few mango trees in and around different food crops is proving to be…
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Brazil forges forward on path to sustainable forest development
LIMA, Peru (3 April, 2012)_Brazil is forging forward towards its sustainable forest development goal, with many ministers and scientists hailing…
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