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- 5 Apr 2012
Domesticating indigenous fruit trees puts better food on the table in sub-Saharan Africa
Traditional knowledge meets the latest science, as local farmers tweak nature's bounty.
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...
28 Mar 2012
Crippling bureaucracy keeps Congo’s chainsaw millers in legal quagmire
BOGOR, Indonesia (28 March 2012)_Small-scale chainsaw millers in the Republic of Congo risk losing their livelihoods as crippling bureaucracy makes sawyers...
News
- 21 Mar 2012
Khat cultivation in Ethiopia fuels economy, reduces deforestation
The versatile crop has come to dominate Ethiopian agriculture - perhaps too much.
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...
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