Gender equality key for sustainable landscapes and fair food systems
Support for gender equity should be central to policies supporting sustainable management of forest landscapes and agroforestry systems to help…
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Boost governance in Peru’s secondary forests to enhance landscape restoration
Assessing the value of secondary forests in Peru is vital for designing policies that recognize the benefits they contribute to…
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Replacing short-term projects with long-term processes
Conservation and development initiatives – even when well-funded and carefully executed – may not succeed if essential, yet often overlooked…
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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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These ecosystems could determine our climate future: study
This article originally appeared in Conservation News. Nature’s stashes of climate-warming carbon are packed into a small percentage of Earth’s…
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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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Landscape sustainability in Indonesia depends on good governance, study finds
Indonesia’s positive experience with decentralized land management in recent decades highlights the importance of supportive governance in reconciling the competing…
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Undisturbed forests could cease to exist in large tropical humid regions by 2050, study says
Satellite data show that undisturbed forests will completely disappear in large tropical humid regions by 2050 under current disturbance rates,…
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How to put community values at the core of landscape management
Forests provide numerous benefits to the communities living in and around them, directly supporting and enhancing local livelihoods. The ecosystem…
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Does funding to integrate conservation and development go where it is most needed?
Over the past few decades, initiatives that aim to integrate conservation goals and development targets at a landscape scale have…
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Strategic forest and landscape restoration for bioenergy and human survival
Developing biofuel-based regenerative supply systems can deliver much-needed energy to consumers in the global south and prevent the collapse of…
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Making the most of forest monitoring in Guyana
An early adopter of REDD+ practices shares lessons learned
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