Addressing five global challenges that will shape our future
As the international community lifts its head above the chaos wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic and sets its sights on…
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Collective payments for ecosystem services: a promising policy tool to reduce deforestation?
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes are often used as a tool to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in tropical…
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How bioenergy can help restore landscapes and livelihoods
Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country by population and its demand for energy is also huge and growing. The…
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IPCC report details catastrophe for planet as threats from climate change mount
Many natural landscapes are at the point of no return, and without action on climate change the planet will become…
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Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods?
Titling Indigenous territories has been discussed in global fora as an essential tool to promote forest conservation. Activism by Indigenous…
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Creating a new relationship with nature through a ‘stewardship economy’
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community…
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A reflection on World Wildlife Day: How forests sustain people and planet
This year, World Wildlife Day highlights the profound link between human wellbeing and nature, a connection emblematic of a way…
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Respect for Indigenous land rights key in fight against climate change
Although research demonstrates the benefits – for people and forests – of secure land and resource rights, these rights remain…
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Q+A: Restore landscapes to cure planet, says author of ‘The Reindeer Chronicles’
On the cusp of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), the time is ripe to pause and ruminate, to…
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Indigenous communities: Respect for land steeped in traditions
Pace of environmental decline on Indigenous territories is slower despite mounting pressures.
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Body Mass Index does not shape complete picture of nutritional needs of Pygmy people
Traditionally foragers and hunter-gatherers, many of the Indigenous communities scattered throughout the dense tropical forests of Central Africa have been…
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Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize…
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