Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions
Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest.And then – boom!Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber logging boom.…
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Can REDD+ shift the tide against elite capture of forest benefits? Probably not
REDD+ is the largest coordinated international attempt to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation globally. It remains one…
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Multiple ways for Congo Basin forests to flourish
Two hundred million hectares, and sixty million people.That’s the size and feeding power of the forests of the Congo Basin…
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In Mexico, it’s the politics…
In Spanish the word for politics and policy is the same – ‘política’ – reminding us that policy is always…
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Grubs in tubs: Cameroon’s larvae love just got so much better
Palm weevil grubs are, to many eyes, the sort of creature you would stamp on if you saw it wriggling…
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REDD+ in Brazil: Coordination needed. Now
Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry…
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Little creature, HUGE footprint
Three years ago when J. Boone Kauffman, an ecologist from Oregon State University and an associate of the Center for…
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Counting trees: 143 scientists just did
Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on…
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A little-known big producer: Will forest policy reform in Peru support farm-forestry?
Collectively, 20 farming households in a Peruvian Amazon village can easily produce 760 cubic meters of sawn lumber per year…
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A price tag on the environment? That will be $125 trillion a year
BOGOR, Indonesia — Although not a particularly romantic idea, putting a price tag on the natural world is something conservation…
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Social networking for climate change adaptation in Cameroon (and it’s not Twitter)
It has an on-ground social networking system that could be harnessed to spread knowledge about climate change—in much the same…
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