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Climate negotiations have never looked like this
As the much-anticipated Paris climate conference draws closer, speculation is heightening over what the Paris Package might look like. In…
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Forests and food: Get your facts straight!
Forestry research is complicated. So is nutrition. When people from these two fields start talking, as they do more and…
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One wicked problem, three major challenges
To achieve zero deforestation, new ties need to be woven between different levels of government, the private sector and civil…
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Gender: It’s about men, too
Drawing on evidence from literature and their experiences implementing and studying value chains, 30 people sitting together at the XIV World…
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An oxymoron is born
I have just left the final session at the XIV World Forestry Congress, where participants discussed the challenges and opportunities…
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Global dry forests: Time to take notice
Almost four years ago, CIFOR organized a side event on the tropical dry forests of Africa at the United Nations…
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The forest detectives: Searching for proof about forests and disease
Editor’s note: Robert Nasi and John Fa will be speaking on the role of bushmeat in food security and nutrition…
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Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions
Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest. And then – boom! Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber…
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Can REDD+ shift the tide against elite capture of forest benefits? Probably not
REDD+ is the largest coordinated international attempt to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation globally. It remains one…
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In Mexico, it’s the politics…
In Spanish the word for politics and policy is the same – ‘política’ – reminding us that policy is always…
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