Forty years of restoration in Nepal

An experiment in community-based forest landscape restoration (CBFLR), initiated by the Nepalese government in the late 1970s, has helped reverse damage around the Phewa Lake region in Nepal, allowing the area to re-blossom into a clean watershed for local communities. A recent paper documents this recovery, providing analysis of land cover change in the surrounding area over a 40-year period.

Why don’t farmers plant more trees?

Agroforestry provides a number of benefits for smallholder tree farmers. However, this raises the question: if tree-based farming works, why isn’t every farmer planting trees? In research published last year, scientists from CIFOR and partner institutions documented agroforestry practices in two tropical Asian locations – Mount Salak Valley in West Java and Khagrachhari District in eastern Bangladesh – to find the answer.

In Solomon Islands the gender effects of corporate logging

Logging in Solomon Islands is openly deemed unsustainable, with round-log exports doomed to decline if the present production rate continues. Among the most afflicted by this malpractice are women, in ways ranging from food and water insecurity to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

In East Kalimantan, forests are facing increased pressure due to the accelerated expansion of oil palm plantations. The province has become the focus of research into Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes, with parallels drawn from Kalimantan to Colombia. This four-part series proved to be some of our most popular posts of 2018. Can the environmental and economic equilibrium it went in search for, be achieved?