Southeast Asia
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Brunei commits to cap agricultural land use at 1 percent
Editor’s Note: Check in at forestasia.org to see news updates from the Forests Asia Summit. Videos of all presentations and…
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Indonesian president calls on successor to continue moratorium on forest concessions
Editor’s Note: President Yudhoyono’s speech can be watched above. His speech begins at the 9:00 mark. Check in at forestasia.org…
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CIFOR Director General: ‘Our world is at a turning point’
Editor’s Note: Peter Holmgren’s speech can be watched above. Check in at forestasia.org to see news updates from the Forests…
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Indonesian president issues call to arms at ‘turning point’ for climate, development, forests
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Research will be key to unlocking Indonesia haze crisis
Editor’s Note: The haze crisis will be a key theme of discussion at the upcoming Forests Asia Summit, 5-6 May…
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‘Rural’ forests nurture healthy socio-environmental activity — scientists
BOGOR, Indonesia (15 April 2014) — Policymakers and conservationists often overlook the importance of rural forests and the local knowledge…
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Report: Forests may play bigger role in rainfall than estimated
LIMA, Peru (10 April 2014) — Current climate models appear to underestimate the full impact of forest vegetation on rainfall…
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Stakeholders in Jakarta map out long-term solutions to haze crisis
Editor’s Note: The haze crisis will be a key theme of discussion at the upcoming Forests Asia Summit, 5-6 May…
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Expert urges new strategy for study of rural-urban migration
BOGOR, Indonesia (18 February 2014) — “Floating populations” make it difficult for researchers to determine the exact location of migrants…
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Mangrove conference to focus on improving coastal livelihoods
The full impact of current plans to convert 2.24 million hectares (ha) of Indonesian mangrove forests to aquaculture shrimp ponds…
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Defining “forest” could improve REDD+ monitoring in Indonesia
If policymakers fail to consider carefully how they define forests, they risk compromising the potential success of the U.N.-backed REDD+…
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Monitoring of carbon-rich wetlands a focus at U.N. climate talks
New guidelines for calculating carbon emissions from wetlands will provide a more accurate picture of buried treasure — a massive…
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Why don’t women participate in forest governance and what difference will their participation make?
“Scholars…focusing on gender and governance have been concerned mainly with women’s near absence from governance institutions. The presumption is that…
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Q&A on fires and haze in Southeast Asia
BOGOR, Indonesia — Fires in forests and former forest lands occur in Indonesia in the dry season every year, particularly…
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Policy makers in Indonesia choose community participation as best for the future
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 June, 2013)_Decision makers in West Kalimantan, Indonesia believe that mining, agriculture and oil palm developments are inevitable,…
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