Analysis – Opinion
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Can adaptive and reflexive learning support more resilient multi-stakeholder forums?
Following wider interest in the land use, land-use change and forestry sector worldwide, Kenya has seen a rise in multi-stakeholder…
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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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Tenure and governance research: Build on accomplishments under PIM to meet SDGs
Secure tenure and effective governance are central to the future of natural resources and agriculture. Although important on their own,…
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The best tool to save the world? A nice cup of tea.
The more one hears about the essential role of trees in the weather (atmospheric rivers!), in soils (the wood wide…
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Try tree regeneration, not tree planting
With all those well-meaning efforts to plant trees out there, alarm is justifiably being raised that sometimes, those trees will…
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Results-based payments in Indonesia: A strategy to move REDD+ forward?
After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and…
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REDD+ research maps complex path to protect forests, people and climate
This year, with much of the world suffering through a global pandemic and stuck at home, people are seeking nature,…
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On average tenure interventions are good for people and the planet
With surging international, national, and subnational policy attention to land tenure security (LTS) in developing countries in recent years, it…
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As the pandemic pushes millions toward poverty, forests and trees can safeguard livelihoods
Daniel C. Miller is associate professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With…
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Can healthy ecosystems prevent pandemics?
Charlotte Milbank is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology and geography at Britain’s University of Cambridge. Any views expressed are…
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Circular economy is the future of wood fuel production in Cameroon
This article was originally published in the print edition of the Cameroon Tribune on Aug. 25, 2020. The circular economy…
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Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize…
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Trees: To plant or not to plant
Trees, glorious trees. Let’s plant a million, a billion, a trillion or more. Tree planting is growing into a global…
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Transforming Kenya’s invasive ‘mathenge’ bushes into charcoal farms
This initiative will be discussed in the session Sustainable wood-fuel value chains for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa at the…
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to ecosystem imbalances…
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