Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents 48% of the total agricultural land use.…
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Turning finance blue
The U.S. was uncooperative at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, and President George H.W. Bush lost a healthy…
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A brief explainer of the blue economy
Carbon-rich coastal ecosystems are rocketing to the forefront of global actions on climate change, and uncomfortable terms like “plastic oceans”…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood they buy, but a growing number of…
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In ecotourism, trotting the globe to help protect it
On the edge of Sumatra’s Leuser National Park, Tanganan village offers days spent hiking to see wild tigers, rhinos, elephants…
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Oil palm for the people
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent years, the negative environmental and…
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A Ponzi scheme with Nature?
A few months back, we shared our first impressions of new research on the Zambian trade of Pterocarpus tinctorius –…
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Increasing sustainability by leaps and bonds
A recent private sector initiative to help fund sustainable natural rubber plantations in heavily degraded land areas of Indonesia has…
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Plenty in common
This research will be presented by its authors on 21 March at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2018:…
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Oil palm landscapes: Sketching out sustainable futures
This article is the fourth in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes.In Colombia, a…
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Oil palm landscapes: Playing the long game with palm oil
This article is the third in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes.It might come…
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In a Central Java town, local wood enterprises carve a niche in the global market
Sitting in Mbak Njum’s tiny office in the coastal Central Java town of Jepara, talk was of exports, trends in…
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