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United States is back as facilitator in Congo Basin Forest Partnership
This blog post was originally published on the website of the Environmental Leadership Program at UC Berkeley Although President Barack…
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Postcards from the field: Nuts about Brazil nuts
Olivia Revilla is a forestry student at the Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD) in Peru. She is…
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Landscapes approach: a red herring or a boon for food security?
Globalization, population growth and competition for land make it mandatory to consider ecosystems and humans as integrally entwined entities. Not…
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Between the Amazon and the Atlantic: Brazil’s threatened savannas
The Amazon rainforest has long been a focus for environmentalists, scientists and policy makers, but they are now starting to…
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Five questions about Sustainable Development Goals and the potential role of landscapes
As the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw approach, it’s time to take stock of the international development framework within which…
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The road to REDD+: How Zambia can keep moving forward
At a glance : Progress toward REDD+ readiness in Zambia has been delayed by institutional rearrangements following a change in…
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Postcards from the field: Building trust in Ecuador
Bulldozers churn in the mud and block the sticky, bumpy road up ahead as Elena Mejia and Ayme Muzo head…
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Board game puts new spin on competitive land-use dynamics
BOGOR, Indonesia (18 October 2013) — Life. Risk. Monopoly. Board games such as these can reflect and diffuse frameworks for…
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Biofuels and forests: Revisiting the debate
This article was originally published in the September-October 2013 issue of Bioenergy Insight. Much of the initial optimism about the…
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My first systematic review: How I fell in love
In retrospect I went in blind. Of course I had familiarized myself with systematic reviews and read the Collaboration for…
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West Africa adopts regional approach to manage forest ecosystems
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire (20 September, 2013)_In response to the dramatic decline of forest cover in West Africa, 15 member countries…
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Indonesian president delivers promised REDD+ agency
BOGOR, Indonesia (10 September 2013) — A new decree signed by the Indonesian president to create a national agency aimed…
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Full text of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s decree on Indonesia REDD+ agency
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA DECREE NUMBER 62 YEAR 2013 REGARDING MANAGING AGENCY FOR THE REDUCTION OF EMISSION FROM…
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Combat poverty while conserving great ape habitats – scientists
BOGOR, Indonesia (2 September 2013) – Biodiversity conservation projects created to save endangered great apes could also play a key…
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Indonesia’s REDD+ pilot province: how is it faring two years on?
When Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono selected Central Kalimantan as the pilot province for his country’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation…
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