land use
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COP31: Five issues to watch at the Antalya climate talks
COP31’s shared leadership puts implementation in focus. Five issues to watch in Antalya include adaptation, just transition, the energy transition,…
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Cameroon: To restore landscapes, protect customary rights-holders
Across Cameroon, from the arid northern steppes to the rolling woodlands and western highlands, communities have sized up the impact…
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World Agroforestry gene bank germinates a future for healthy ecosystems
Africa’s iconic baobab tree, sometimes called the “upside-down tree” and popular in myths and local legend, was in trouble earlier…
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Forest restoration and democracy: Making communities visible in Madagascar
Landscape restoration will not be fully effective unless it contributes to social as well as ecological benefits. Recent discussions at…
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Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species, says new study
It is widely assumed that land uses that increase carbon in biomass and soil to mitigate climate change also benefit…
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Using the ‘four powers’ to tackle land use dilemmas
Exclusion from land is inherently negative. A handful of actors hold all the power to control relations around land use.…
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Transparent data needed to reach global goals on climate
With no shortage of interested stakeholders when it comes to climate change, there is a need for transparent land-use monitoring…
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The cost of increasing ecosystem carbon
Increasing the organic carbon stored in biomass and soils holds great promise to help mitigate climate change. However, there is…
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Fighting fire and haze in Indonesia
In Indonesia, few have forgotten the devastating peatland fires and suffocating haze that afflicted the greater region for several months…
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Ecological restoration, an unprecedented opportunity for nature and people
With governments around the globe making impressive commitments to restore degraded ecosystems, we frequently hear that the world is entering…
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Community participation as a REDD+ safeguard
When making decisions about land use, involving diverse members of the community can help ensure fairer outcomes for all and…
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Finding a way in for better landscape governance
Landscape approaches provide a framework to find solutions to social, environmental and economic challenges. In the past, sectoral approaches were…
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Landscape approaches have potential but can do better in reporting, practice
In recent decades, growing numbers of policymakers have begun to embrace more holistic strategies to address the intertwined challenges of…
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For secure land rights, indigenous forest communities need more than just titles
Under Peruvian law, a title gives traditional forest communities rights over land, but resources on that land, such as forests,…
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For a better Borneo, new map reveals how much terrain has changed
When a tree falls in Borneo, does it make a sound? A new interactive atlas developed by the Center for…
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