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Greater awareness needed to dispel REDD+ myths
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 August, 2012) _ Many local communities know REDD+ is touted by international policymakers as the best way…
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Why rural women in Uganda should be empowered to take the lead in forestry
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 August, 2012)_Encouraging women to take leadership positions needs to become a national priority for Uganda’s policymakers in…
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Mozambique resists external pressures and drafts own REDD+ strategy
BOGOR, Indonesia (16 August, 2011)_ Mozambique has taken a “remarkable” approach to reducing deforestation, engaging local communities and other stakeholders…
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REDD+ within reach in rural Brazil
LIMA, Peru (10 August, 2012)_Agricultural reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon have often been associated with high deforestation rates, thus…
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Shared management rights not so equal: Forest communities still tied up in state red tape
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (09 August, 2012)_Despite a multitude of land tenure reforms over the past 20 years opening legal…
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Farmers, policymakers get how-to guide on frankincense production
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (8 August, 2012)_New guidelines for farmers and policymakers working with the high-value aromatic resin, frankincense, come with…
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Soybeans and forests in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation: A temporary truce?
BOGOR, Indonesia (6 August, 2012)_With global demand for commodities like palm oil, soy and beef rapidly increasing, and the supply…
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Soybeans and forests in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation: A temporary truce?
Macedo, M.N., DeFries, R.S., Morton, D.C., Stickler, C.M., Galford, G.L. and Shimabukuro, Y.E. 2012 Decoupling of deforestation and soy production…
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Boosting Indonesia’s wetlands science is key to tackling climate change
BOGOR, Indonesia (7 June, 2012)_Greater scientific understanding of Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing carbon-rich wetlands is needed to help mitigate the effects…
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Palm oil development in Cameroon: An urgent need for a national strategy
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (06 June 2012) _ Cameroon’s expansive tract of the Congo Basin rain forest is at threat with a…
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Deforestation from mining in the Congo more than ‘a hole in the canopy’
BOGOR, Indonesia (16 July 2012)_Seen from the sky, a mining pit might look like ‘a small hole in the canopy’—visually…
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The allure of win-win: can money buy environmental services?
BOGOR, Indonesia (10 July 2012)_Payments for environmental services (PES) approaches have been embraced enthusiastically worldwide because of their perceived win-win…
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Charred lands: fertile grounds for sustainable agriculture in Kalimantan?
BOGOR, Indonesia (06 July, 2012)_ In the Amazon, it’s called Terra Preta. In the tribal tongues of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan…
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Is REDD+ moving too slow? Not necessarily…
BOGOR, Indonesia (04 July2102)_REDD+ implementation was supposed to be “big, quick and cheap”. So far, it is not one big…
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Linking the local to the global: REDD+ as a multi-level puzzle
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (29 June 12)_If a UN-backed scheme to slow the pace of climate change by safeguarding the…
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