Organisations join forces to fight for forest communities
BOGOR, Indonesia (6 March, 2013)_Organisations working collectively in Guatemala and Nepal are succeeding in giving a voice to people living…
4 min readConflicting land-use rights threaten Brazil nut harvesters
LIMA, Peru (25 February, 2013)_Brazil nut harvesting – a sustainable use of the forest in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios…
5 min readLatin America’s forests – what lies ahead in 2013?
LIMA, Peru (22 February, 2013)_In the past year, Latin America’s forests saw progress and setbacks that will shape ecosystem health…
6 min readIn summary: Overcoming conflicting land-use claims in Peru
LIMA, Peru (21 February, 2013)_Forests in southeastern Peru are threatened by a hodgepodge of overlapping land-use concessions — in part…
3 min readBig beetles, big benefits: Trading some of the largest insects on Earth
BOGOR, Indonesia (19 February, 2013)_Protection of beetle habitats in Cameroon and regulation over their collection and trade could help lift…
4 min readUnderstanding the role of forest income in rural livelihoods: Insights from China
With almost a quarter of the world’s population relying on forest resources for their livelihoods, understanding how forests can improve…
4 min readPaying farmers to protect forest watersheds in Vietnam & China: The long-term prognosis
BOGOR, Indonesia (12 February, 2013)_ As China and Vietnam move toward decentralised, market-baed economies, they will need to improve the…
5 min readIs financing sustainable forest management an inappropriate use of public funding?
BOGOR, Indonesia (4 February, 2013)_The long-running debate about how best to conserve forests and improve livelihoods in forest-rich tropical countries…
4 min readEco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach to the ‘people in parks’ problem in Indonesia?
BOGOR, Indonesia (30 January, 2013)_It’s a unique solution to a problem that is plaguing national parks all over Indonesia: instead…
4 min readTrouble ahead if forests and adaptation are not considered in the post Rio+20 era
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (16 January, 2013)_Forests have occupied a role in the first 20 years of the Rio era (1992-2012) through…
3 min readHow much credit can Brazil take for slowing Amazon deforestation – and how low can it go?
BOGOR, Indonesia (15 January, 2013)_Brazilian policymakers can take some of the credit for a dramatic slowdown in the deforestation rate…
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