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Making tracks: How movement shapes landscapes
When populations move, there’s a tendency to assume the worst – war, poverty or environmental degradation may be the first…
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‘We are all stakeholders in the problems we address’
As the world ramps up commitments to address climate change, restore degraded lands and achieve sustainable development for all, a…
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Are ‘No deforestation’ commitments working?
In 2014, many of the world’s major companies buying, trading or producing palm oil and pulp and paper made a…
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Forests vital for global food security
Worldwide, global hunger is on the rise, with 815 million people going hungry every day, according to a recent UN…
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Sharing the benefits of REDD+ in Indonesia
After its introduction in Indonesia more than five years ago, REDD+, originally conceived as a carbon emissions reduction scheme has…
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A long-awaited reader on gender and forestry
A new book launched today brings together 30 years of scholarship on a topic that is gaining increasing attention worldwide:…
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A promising (but uncertain) future for tenure rights devolution
Over the past two decades, communities across the developing world have secured stronger rights to manage their forests, carried by…
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In Indonesia, finding the right ways to fight fire and haze
On the eve of talks in Pekanbaru, Riau, on best practices to prevent fire and haze, Center for International Forestry…
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Advancing forest landscape restoration worldwide
Since 2010, national governments worldwide, alongside technical and financial partners, have stepped up ambitious commitments to implement forest landscape restoration…
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There is more to farming than yields, and more to forests than trees
On the sidelines of the 2017 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting in Merida, Mexico, and following a…
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Preserving precious peat in the Congo Basin
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been known for the biodiversity and carbon storage capacity of its vast…
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Q&A: “Peruvian peatlands should be considered as priorities in any national conservation program for climate change mitigation”
Peruvian peatlands are of huge environmental importance, not only locally but also globally. They not only house enormous stores of…
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Fending off the flames
The land fires that swept through Indonesia in 2015 burned some 2.6 million hectares, with the resulting haze causing health…
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What is CarboScen?
Understanding the carbon implications of deforestation, tree-planting, and changes in agricultural practices can help policy makers and land-use planners make…
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Tenure reform: Lessons from the Global South
Over the past two decades, a global trend has seen increasing recognition of the rights of communities and local governments…
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