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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 upcoming…
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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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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ‘empty forests’ when animals disappear
“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all is well.” Kent Redford’s cautionary…
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Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives
The pressing environmental and social challenges driven by deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, poverty and food insecurity often intersect in…
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