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Event Coverage
- 9 Jan 2013
Green growth in Myanmar: an emerging democracy’s vision for future development
Myanmar is home to one of Southeast Asia's largest expanses of natural forest, but for how much longer?
Analysis
- 8 Jan 2013
A 4°C warmer world “will be catastrophic” for forest biodiversity: expert
Climate change plus deforestation equates to a perfect storm of biodiversity loss and extinctions.
Event Coverage
- 4 Jan 2013
The world’s shrinking food basket: Why it is critical we increase crop diversity
Two key words for resilient food systems: genetic diversity and indigenous knowledge.
News
- 30 Dec 2012
Big Brother is watching: Forest surveillance systems could reveal new terrestrial animals
Local communities may see for the first some the species that are living in their forests.
Event Coverage
- 27 Dec 2012
“Designer plants” help meet demand for palm oil and avoid deforestation
Scientists hope to replace low-yielding oil palms with selectively bred high yielding plants, dramatically increasingly yield.
News
- 24 Dec 2012
BEST OF 2012: Supernatural powers play key role in forest use
A strictly secular approach to forest management may be at odds with local attitudes.
News
- 22 Dec 2012
Landscape-based certification scheme aims to lift poverty by engaging communities
Landscape labelling offers payments to community-based organisations to manage unique and diverse rural landscapes.
Event Coverage
- 20 Dec 2012
How to address new biofuel challenges when impacts on environment and society are ‘mixed’
Can we avoid deforestation while promoting biofuels?
News
- 19 Dec 2012
Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local people
Are conservation organizations keeping people in poverty?
News
- 17 Dec 2012
For indigenous people in Latin America, land rights are only half the battle
The need to tip the power balance through the empowerment of local actors.
DG’s Column
- 16 Dec 2012
Landscapes for sustainable development
How can we combine high conservation and high development approaches?
DG’s Column
- 16 Dec 2012
Landscapes for sustainable development
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