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Toward nature-positive trade in Asia’s agriculture supply chains
Making agricultural production more sustainable is a key challenge of our time – and it requires reckoning with an intricate…
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Scaling up forest-based solutions for planetary crises
“The world is facing climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss,” said Janne Narakka, the Strategic Planning Committee Chair of the…
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Farmers benefit from planting rubber and nut trees in agroforestry systems
By using an “agent-based” computer model to examine the relationships between agroforestry, livelihoods and the environment in Indonesia, researchers learned…
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Bitter or sweet trade for Africa’s cocoa farmers?
The African continent is the biggest producer of some of the world’s most loved commodities. But is it taking home…
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Increasing sustainability by leaps and bonds
A recent private sector initiative to help fund sustainable natural rubber plantations in heavily degraded land areas of Indonesia has…
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Cameroon: a case study of Chinese corporate social responsibility
NAIROBI, Kenya—When a continent as forest rich as Africa becomes the target of direct foreign investment – no matter what…
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FORESTS NEWS ARCHIVE: Martyr of the Amazon: The legacy of Chico Mendes
Editor’s Note On 22 December 1988 — 25 years ago Sunday — Chico Mendes was murdered. During his life, Mendes…
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Martyr of the Amazon: The legacy of Chico Mendes
It’s impossible to talk about forests in Acre, Brazil, without mentioning the state’s home-grown hero: rubber-tapper, union-leader and Amazon-defender Chico…
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New study highlights need for REDD+ to look beyond carbon
BOGOR, Indonesia (21 February, 2012)_A new study on rubber plantations highlights the need for the REDD+ climate change scheme to…
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