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One size does not fit all
Efforts to help Indonesian oil palm smallholders comply with sustainability standards and “good agricultural practices” may not succeed if these…
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Fungus Friday! Why aren’t more scientists studying mushrooms?
At this year’s 4th Agroforestry Congress in Montpellier, Forests News caught up with Jianchu Xu. Jianchu, a scientist at World…
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Pineapples and peatlands
Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But for Meri Andayani and her friends, the…
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Tension and transformation in the patriarchy
When Jackline Cheplang’at began teaching fellow community members about gender and conservation issues in Kenya’s traditionally patriarchal Rift Valley region,…
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Talk shows and text messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
This story is the second in a three-part series. Read part one, Barking up the same tree in Kenya’s Rift…
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Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too.…
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Barking up the same trees
The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their springs and streams feed a number of major…
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‘Evaluation must be done’
Scientists attending the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP24 climate talks in Katowice, Poland, discussed potential solutions to…
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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
(Forests News) – When Rosalina Heni is not working in the rice paddy fields in Ribang Kadeng village in the…
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Why the drone buzz is getting louder
In 2012, peer-reviewed journal Tropical Conservation Science ran an article announcing the ‘dawn of drone ecology,’ hailing the aerial technology as…
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