Explainer: Five issues facing forests
The world needs its forests. In fact, it needs more of them. There are currently about three trillion trees on…
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Learning outside the classroom: Closer perspectives on gender and development research
Editor’s note: Sara Soto, Luisa Almanza and Juan David Hernández are undergraduate ecology students in the environmental and rural studies…
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From songbirds to shade-grown coffee: Advancing sustainable trade in Indonesia
A new land-use change analysis showed a promising sustainability outlook for Indonesia’s palm oil sector, underscoring the importance of no-deforestation…
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Modeling future deforestation in Peru
Planners in Peru can model different scenarios for deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon credits using a new tool developed…
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From national targets to grassroots transformation
Unsustainable agricultural practices and the over-exploitation of natural resources has eroded ecosystem health on 60 percent of Africa’s agricultural and…
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Explainer: How trees help protect us from flooding
Right now, much of East Africa – including Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda – and southern Brazil are awash with water.…
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Advancing Ethiopian agroforestry
In a world of increasing populations, dwindling biodiversity and growing climatic challenges, agroforestry – a multifunctional land management system that integrates…
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“Together, we can turn the tide”: protecting Indonesia’s blue carbon
With around 18,000 islands and almost 100,000 kilometres of coastline, it makes sense that the archipelagic nation of Indonesia has…
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In Ethiopia, cultivating hope through tree seed orchards
On a flight over western Addis Ababa, the Suba Forest appears as a dark green island in a brown sea…
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Making wild meat safer and more sustainable
While wildmeat consumption can be a risk to the environment and human safety, it is also a key resource for…
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How to get carbon markets right
Carbon markets have been variously lauded as a critical part of addressing the climate crisis, and criticized as empty greenwash.…
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What’s needed to make agroecology mainstream?
The transition to agroecology has gained momentum in the past few years, as its broad benefits for climate, biodiversity, and…
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