Ten challenges and lessons for donors funding REDD+ as performance based aid
REDD+ was a plan to create a system of Payment for Environmental Services, with the bulk of the funding coming from…
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Fusing adaptation and mitigation funding: A lofty goal?
At a glance :Even though evidence shows adaptation and mitigation can work together on the ground, no financial instruments explicitly…
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Prostates, Prunus and policy: A remarkable tree, a contested study, and tough choices ahead
The source of a popular medicine for treating prostate disorders has been caught in a muddle that extends from the…
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BEST OF 2013: Is forest certification working?
Editor’s Note: As the year winds to an end, we are revisiting Forests News’ most popular articles of 2013.CIFOR’s wide-ranging research…
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Strong laws can boost sustainable development in Africa — expert
Land acquisitions in sub-Saharan Africa are on the rise and investment trends are shifting, increasing the need to close tax…
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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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From the Amazon to the world: A story of Brazil nuts
Every wet season in the Western Amazon, Peru’s castañeros (brazil nut concession holders and harvesters) gather the huge brazil nut fruits…
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The invisible workforce: gender myth-busting in Ecuador
An hour’s walk into the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador’s Orellana province, Maricela Tapuy and her sister-in-law are working alongside their…
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Who buys, who sells, how much? Mapping Ecuador’s timber markets
Luis Andi*, his brother Jorge and their wives are clearing a small patch of forest in the province of Orellana,…
10 min readPanel discussion on “landmark” Indonesia-EU timber trade pact
BOGOR, Indonesia (21 October 2013) — On 30 September, 2013, the government of Indonesia signed the Collaboration Agreement on the…
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Oil palm can be made more biodiversity friendly — experts
BOGOR, Indonesia (11 October, 2013) — If notoriously non-biodiverse oil palm plantations are developed only on degraded land, they will…
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The multi-million dollar question: Is forest certification working?
BOGOR, Indonesia (19 September, 2013) – Forest certification is considered a promising tool to improve forest management, but there needs…
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