Women coffee growers in Vietnam boost climate mitigation through agroforestry
Coffee agroforestry systems in Vietnam have significant capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering carbon and reducing the need…
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Water-forest interactions complex but crucial in ecosystem service delivery
Planting trees among the maize and bean crops of her smallholder farm in Kenya has helped Margaret Muchanga to increase…
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Software can predict genetic changes to plants caused by climate change
Climate-change scientists can now apply an R software package that can help predict genetic changes. Described in the scientific journal,…
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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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The enormous challenge and opportunity of land restoration
Of all the negative things that humans have inflicted on the planet, the deliberate removal of forest cover ranks among…
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Wrong way to chocolate: Turn back now
At a recent gathering of leading researchers and practitioners in the cocoa sector, main topics of discussion included the continuing…
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Agroforestry scale-up a promising prospect for fragile ecosystems and livelihoods in Nepal
Nepal’s Chure region, which comprises the “youngest mountains in the world” is a critical biodiversity habitat and the main watershed…
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Scientist Susan Chomba responds to challenges of ecosystem restoration
The forested world in which Susan Chomba was immersed in girlhood is now gone.She grew up familiar with the cackles…
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Soil health critical for maintaining human health, biological diversity, researchers say
Healthy soil sustains life on Earth, channeling nutrients through plants, supporting essential water and land-based systems, absorbing carbon dioxide to…
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Rwandan farmers plant millions of seedlings in landscape restoration initiative
More than 4 million tree seedlings have been planted by farmers as part of an agroforestry policy implemented by the…
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