Using a cross-sectoral landscapes approach to improve forest livelihoods
Helping farmers in the tropics face the challenges of climate change would profit from an interdisciplinary landscape approach that accounts…
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Biological corridors help plants adapt to climate change — study
As the range of some plant species shifts to higher elevations due to the climate change, biological corridors that connect…
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Smallholder farmers in Cameroon nearly ready for REDD+ — with a bit of help
A recent study of two villages in Cameroon indicates that small farmers there are not far from having the capacity…
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Q+A: Emissions hotspots maps provide grist for climate change strategies
Maps pinpointing greenhouse gas emissions hotspots can help improve land management in countries preparing climate change mitigation strategies, a scientist…
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Philippines’ Tony La Viña on building a global coalition to end climate change
U.N. climate talks were launched this week with a renewed sense of urgency as officials in the Philippines took tally…
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Water Storage key to climate change adaptation
Communities across the globe can build resilience to climate change by re-inventing old water storage strategies and investing in new…
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Putting land-use models to work amid efforts to slow climate change
Models can be unreliable for predicting future outcomes of integrated land use, but can generate helpful scenarios and projections to…
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The challenge of certifying forest ecosystem services
As the challenges of certifying forest ecosystem services persist, delegates at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are anticipating new…
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Combining climate-change adaptation and mitigation: a win-win option
Although rural landscapes can be managed to optimize both climate-change mitigation and adaptation, many climate-oriented development projects fail to take…
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Postcards from the field: Nuts about Brazil nuts
Olivia Revilla is a forestry student at the Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD) in Peru. She is…
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Landscapes approach: a red herring or a boon for food security?
Globalization, population growth and competition for land make it mandatory to consider ecosystems and humans as integrally entwined entities. Not…
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Five questions about Sustainable Development Goals and the potential role of landscapes
As the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw approach, it’s time to take stock of the international development framework within which…
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