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Community support crucial to blue carbon success

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Quantifying environmental benefits is vital but don't undervalue good governance and equitable benefit sharing

Sonya Dewi begins tenure as new Asia Director

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The Bogor, Indonesia-based landscape ecologist will oversee nine countries in her Asia directorate.

Fielding peatland data in remote Central Congo

Amindeh Blaise
Hard-to-get field data essential for calibration and validation
  • 1 Jun 2023

    Community support crucial to blue carbon success

    Quantifying environmental benefits is vital but don't undervalue good governance and equitable benefit sharing
  • Interview - 29 May 2023

    Sonya Dewi begins tenure as new Asia Director

    The Bogor, Indonesia-based landscape ecologist will oversee nine countries in her Asia directorate.
  • 26 May 2023

    Fielding peatland data in remote Central Congo

    Hard-to-get field data essential for calibration and validation
25 May 2023

Keeping track of trees and forests in Eastern and Southern Africa

19 May 2023

Central African countries vulnerable to emerging infectious diseases

17 May 2023

At home with the hunters: Intimate visions of the wild meat trade in Gabon and Madagascar

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SPECIAL COVERAGE: The centrality of soil

We often overlook the soil beneath our feet. But we’re quickly learning just how thin the ‘Earth’s skin’ can be.

At CIFOR-ICRAF, soil scientists take a whole systems approach to understanding the connections between soil and food nutrition and security, ecosystem restoration, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

9 Mar 2023

Mind the gap: What knowledge is needed for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration success?

Addressing information gaps and barriers to restore ecosystems and protect biodiversity

COP 27 leaders urged to kick-start restoration of soil ecosystems

Sustainable soil movement grows at COP15 on land desertification and drought

 

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7 Mar 2023

Listen and learn: Why research needs to start with women and communities

Interviews with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers doing crosscutting work on gender equity and social inclusion
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30 Jan 2023

Tropical wetland countries refine forest reference emission levels (FREL)

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4 Jan 2023

Sharing stories of community-based fire prevention in Riau, Indonesia

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11 Apr 2022

Celebrating women in environmental conservation

Challenges and opportunities
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19 Jan 2022

Keeping the momentum going to protect Congo Basin

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16 Oct 2021

Much room for mushrooms in global diets

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Event Coverage - 16 May 2023

Wildfire reduction in Southeast Asia depends on regional approach to prevention

Workshop paves way for uniform ASEAN guidelines to map and estimate burned areas
Event Coverage - 12 May 2023

Scientists and policymakers join forces in the fight against DRC deforestation

Workshop seeks answers for forest protection and climate change mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
10 May 2023

Understanding hidden, visible, and invisible forms of power necessary for environmental governance

Understanding power in decision-making can help address imbalances in moving to inclusive and equitable landscape governance

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8 Apr 2022

New book details best approaches to Adaptive Collaborative Management in forests

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Yangambi: Building a sustainable landscape that puts people first
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Yangambi: Building a sustainable landscape that puts people first

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
19 Jan 2021

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty

REDD+ research maps complex path to protect forests, people and climate
23 Dec 2020

REDD+ research maps complex path to protect forests, people and climate

Building skills to help monitor cross-border timber trade in Africa’s Great Lakes region
9 Dec 2020

Building skills to help monitor cross-border timber trade in Africa’s Great Lakes region

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Analysis: Scientists' views

24 Apr 2023

From sustainable forest management to restoration

How Adaptive Collaborative Management has evolved over two and a half decades
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4 Apr 2023

How are local and Indigenous rights safeguarded in the context of REDD+ in Indonesia?

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27 Mar 2023

Why context is critical when it comes to deforestation

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Event Coverage - 16 May 2023

Wildfire reduction in Southeast Asia depends on regional approach to prevention

Workshop paves way for uniform ASEAN guidelines to map and estimate burned areas
Event Coverage - 12 May 2023

Scientists and policymakers join forces in the fight against DRC deforestation

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Event Coverage - 12 May 2023

Scientists and policymakers join forces in the fight against DRC deforestation

Workshop seeks answers for forest protection and climate change mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
10 May 2023

Understanding hidden, visible, and invisible forms of power necessary for environmental governance

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10 May 2023

Understanding hidden, visible, and invisible forms of power necessary for environmental governance

Understanding power in decision-making can help address imbalances in moving to inclusive and equitable landscape governance
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Leading women in sustainable wildlife management: Meet Guyana’s ecotourism entrepreneurs

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29 May 2023

Sonya Dewi begins tenure as new Asia Director

The Bogor, Indonesia-based landscape ecologist will oversee nine countries in her Asia directorate.
6 Mar 2023

Seeing from all sides: Why we need more women in science

Q&A with CIFOR-ICRAF forestry scientist Nining Liswanti
28 Feb 2023

Honouring the waymakers for women in science: Meet Eponle Usoh Sylvie

Q&A with one of CIFOR-ICRAF’s restoration research fellows in Cameroon
10 Feb 2023

Energy transfer: How one woman scientist aims to spark enthusiasm in the next generation

Q&A with CIFOR-ICRAF bioenergy research scientist Mary Njenga
14 May 2022

Q+A: Paolo Cerutti on Congo Basin in State of the World’s Forests report

Legal frameworks granting people more power vital
12 May 2022

Q+A: Amazon expert Manuel Guariguata reacts to State of the World’s Forests report

Halting deforestation as a key pathway
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