Gedeo’s agroforestry legacy: Farming without losing forests
This article follows a visit to the Humbo Carbon Project, where communities restored degraded land through collective action. In Gedeo,…
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Born in the Sahel, now global: A soil assessment method reshaping restoration science
Twenty years ago in Mali, Tor-Gunnar Vågen and colleagues began experimenting with a methodology to assess and map soil and land health; today, that early work has amplified into a framework with myriad applications for restoration across landscapes. The…
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New global wetlands data now available on UN platform to support climate decisions
Wetlands influence climate, water and biodiversity across much of the tropics and subtropics, yet many remain poorly mapped. Their extent,…
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Indonesia’s mangrove conservation could hold the key to blue carbon trading
As the world races to reduce carbon emissions, attention often focuses on fossil fuels and land-use change. Yet, beneath Indonesia’s…
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Sweet returns: How cacao and oil palm farmers in Southeast Asia are reshaping their landscapes
In the village of Mappadeceng in Sulawesi, Indonesia, farmers Kasum and Sulastri grow cacao for export – their beans eventually…
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Land degradation could cost us the Earth
Land degradation, when land becomes less healthy and productive due to human activities, natural conditions or a combination of the…
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From the ground up: Farmer-managed natural regeneration revives degraded lands in Africa
When Tony Rinaudo first attempted to restore land through tree planting in Niger over four decades ago, his initial attempts…
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Why tropical dry forests are collapsing: The forces driving a silent crisis
*This article is the second and final part of a two-part series on tropical dry forests. Part 1 explored what…
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Old haunts, new hikers on Papua New Guinea’s Ghost Mountain Trail
Papua New Guinea’s Kokoda Trail, stretching from Port Moresby in the south to the village of Kokoda in the north,…
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Kenyan tree-seed sector needs policy overhaul to boost ecosystem restoration
Policy, planting and training are the three pillars of Africa’s tree-seed sector, which underpins the continent’s ambitious ecosystem restoration goals.Effective…
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Restoration starts at home: Training couples to heal land and livelihoods
Successfulforestand land restoration just might begin at home, according to a recent experience in trainingmarried couples to work togetherwithin their…
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“What is a tree?”
On a sunlit spring morning at Cambridge Cottage in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, botanical scientists, AI engineers, restoration…
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