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To save the shea tree, scientists explore predictive breeding tools
Better known outside Africa for shea butter, which is used in chocolate manufacturing, cuisine and cosmetics, the shea (Vitellaria paradoxa)…
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Women coffee growers in Vietnam boost climate mitigation through agroforestry
Coffee agroforestry systems in Vietnam have significant capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering carbon and reducing the need…
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Turtle conservation in Guyana’s Rupununi spawns awareness for sustainable wildlife management
As in many parts of the world, in Yupukari, a small village in Guyana’s northern Rupununi region, Christmas has always…
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Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts
For generations, women in West Africa have produced shea butter for home consumption and to sell for use in cosmetics…
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Gender dynamics in Ghana’s oil palm processing sector
Known throughout the industry as “oil palm mamas” or “market queens,” women play a competitive role in Ghana’s informal oil…
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Meet the farmers and scientists collaborating to restore Kenya’s degraded grasslands
Hellen Atieno Owuor remembers a time when farming goats and cattle in the sub-humid eastern highlands of Kenya was a…
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Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods?
Titling Indigenous territories has been discussed in global fora as an essential tool to promote forest conservation. Activism by Indigenous…
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Scientists urge action as Gambian livestock grazing puts forests at risk
Herders moving within Gambia and across the country’s borders into Senegal in search of pasture inadvertently threaten forests and the…
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Peru’s smallholder farmers need state recognition for timber production, study says
Smallholders who produce fallow timber on their farms in the Peruvian Amazon would benefit from a regulatory mechanism to help…
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Amerindian culture and land rights shape conservation in Guyana’s Rupununi region
Everisto Lawrence remembers fishing and hunting as a boy, walking along riverbanks and at the edge of the forest for…
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