DG’s Column
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Sharing positive views about forests and trees on the International Day of Forests
Today is the first annual International Day of Forests. From 1972 until now, 21 March was celebrated as World Forestry…
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Thoughts on the 2012 Global Food Policy Report
I had the pleasure of reading the excellent 2012 Global Food Policy Report, released on 14 March by the International…
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Maintaining forestry’s identity among global challenges
We seem to have a new debate in international forestry circles following our recent initiative to hold a global forum…
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Evidence-based forestry – a collaboration to raise the quality of science and policy for forests and sustainable landscapes
There are increasing expectations that policies should be evidence based. This extends to the use of public funds for…
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Measuring sustainable development must be made simple and affordable
The political talks towards new global goals are on. The Rio+20 congregation came up with the idea to agree on…
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Landscapes for sustainable development
The evolution of Forest Day into a proposed Landscape Day at future UNFCCC COPs, involving agriculture and rural development stakeholders,…
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COP18 was not good enough: Time to rethink green sectors’ approach for 2015
BOGOR, Indonesia (11 December, 2012)_The UNFCCC COP-18 in Doha worked overtime to finally agree not to disagree. The Secretariat was…
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Forest Day – time to move on
On 2 December 2012, I shall have the honour of opening the sixth edition of Forest Day at the 18th…
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Clocking the world’s forests
In an earlier blog entry, I discussed how the annual global deforestation area is determined and the fact that this…
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Communication challenges in science for forest policy
Huertas, A., D. Adler. 2010. Is News Corp. failing science? Representations of climate science on Fox News Channel and in…
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Sustainable forestry à la Sweden
Could the “Swedish model” of sustainable forest management be part of the solution for forestry in other parts of…
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Determining deforestation and Deforestation as the determinant
As I took up my job at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) last month, I noted the so-called…
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Scaling up sustainability: time for forestry to come out of the forest
BOGOR, Indonesia — Ending deforestation has been a political goal for decades, even centuries – an unmet ambition up…
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