Diversified forest gardens can reduce food security risks in Latin America
LIMA, Peru (30 March, 2012)_Forest gardens within coffee plantations in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico, play a vital role in supporting farmers’…
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Female negotiators at Rio+20 must forge common front to give a voice to forest-dependent women
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 March, 2012)_Female negotiators across all development sectors at this year’s Rio+ 20 conference must form a united…
6 min readHarnessing the Timber Companies: Vignettes from a Year in Borneo
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 March, 2012)_Much forest research has focused on logging. This excerpt from Vignettes from a Year in Borneo briefly…
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Multiple-use forest saves turkey from being hunted to death
BOGOR, Indonesia (16 March, 2012)_For US$3,000, sport hunters can spend four days hunting the Ocellated Turkey in multiple-use community forest…
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Where there is no Doctor: Vignettes from a year in Borneo
BOGOR, Indonesia (14 March, 2012)_CIFOR has already devoted some of its research effort to looking at the health of people…
4 min readVignettes of a year in Borneo: land in dispute
BOGOR, Indonesia (9 March, 2011)_This book tells a story. We lived in the middle of Borneo, as a family, working…
6 min readDespite recognition of indigenous land rights in Nicaragua, communities still losing out
LIMA, Peru (9 March, 2012)_While legislation that recognises indigenous territorial rights in Nicaragua represents a significant victory for local forest…
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Empowering rural women for U.N. International Women’s Day
BOGOR, Indonesia (8 March, 2012)_The United Nations have chosen the theme “Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty” to…
6 min readCollective powers needed to maintain access and control of land and resources
LIMA, Peru (7 March, 2012)_ Since the 1980s, several countries worldwide have recognised community rights to forests, resources, resource revenues…
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Central Africa desperate for forest experts: workshop
DOUALA, Cameroon (5 March, 2012)_Forestry experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have a hefty workload: as only 100…
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Indonesian communities coping with crisis depend on forests
BOGOR, Indonesia (29 February, 2012)_Six years ago, hundreds of homes and rice fields in a number of small villages in…
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All that glitters is not gold: Precious metal mining in Congo should stay small for the sake of the forest
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (24 February, 2012)_The harmful impacts of gold and diamond mining on the Congo Basin rainforest can be minimised…
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