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News
- 4 Apr 2012
Mango trees help make food crops in Bangladesh more productive
Ancient methods are improving food security for the increasingly populous nation.
30 Mar 2012
Diversified forest gardens can reduce food security risks in Latin America
Forest gardens within coffee plantations in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico, play a vital role in supporting farmers’ livelihoods by providing basic food...
Interview
- 20 Mar 2012
Female negotiators at Rio+20 must forge common front to give a voice to forest-dependent women
Barriers for women range from institutional factors to "disparaging attitudes and comments from male colleagues".
20 Mar 2012
Harnessing the Timber Companies: Vignettes from a Year in Borneo
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 March, 2012)_Much forest research has focused on logging. Here I briefly discuss a planned, never implemented, but potentially valuable...
News
- 16 Mar 2012
Multiple-use forest saves turkey from being hunted to death
Locals charge US$3000 to hunt the Ocellated Turkey.
Feature
- 14 Mar 2012
Where there is no Doctor: Vignettes from a year in Borneo
"I imagined he would fall from the boardwalks and break something, that he would be bitten by a poisonous snake or a crocodile..."
9 Mar 2012
Vignettes of a year in Borneo: land in dispute
BOGOR, Indonesia (9 March, 2011)_This book tells a story. We lived in the middle of Borneo, as a family, working on the first year and a half of a Conservation...
9 Mar 2012
Despite recognition of indigenous land rights in Nicaragua, communities still losing out
LIMA, Peru (9 March, 2012)_While legislation that recognises indigenous territorial rights in Nicaragua represents a significant victory for local forest...
News
- 8 Mar 2012
Empowering rural women for U.N. International Women’s Day
Global community must move beyond ‘add women and stir’ approach.
7 Mar 2012
Collective powers needed to maintain access and control of land and resources
LIMA, Peru (7 March, 2012)_ Since the 1980s, several countries worldwide have recognised community rights to forests and their resources. Now, the challenge...
Event Coverage
- 5 Mar 2012
Central Africa desperate for forest experts: workshop
Years of conflict, disease and emigration have decimated forestry in the Congo Basin.
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