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Analysis
- 30 Jun 2015
Invest with confidence: Are planted forests in Latin America a good deal?
While tree plantations can be financially attractive, more information is needed to spur the market.
News
- 29 Jun 2015
Where, when, why: Human-orangutan conflict in Borneo
All too often, encounters prove fatal for dwindling orangutans.
News
- 23 Jun 2015
Cameroon: a case study of Chinese corporate social responsibility
Research shows the situation is "much more nuanced and complex" than often thought.
News
- 9 Jun 2015
Palmed off: Women lose in West Kalimantan oil palm boom
Low wages for long, difficult and insecure work.
Analysis
- 8 Jun 2015
Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
New mapping techniques sketch out some surprisingly opaque connections.
News
- 1 Apr 2015
In Indonesia, local communities lose out as oil palm expands
Research in West Papua highlights stark reality for indigenous communities.
News
- 16 Feb 2015
REDD+ to the rescue of Central Africa’s forests? Not yet, study says
The economics of conservation still aren't working for smallholders.
News
- 14 Jan 2015
Peatland loss could emit 2,800 years’ worth of carbon in an evolutionary eyeblink: study
More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.
News
- 7 Jan 2015
In the tropics, an alien invasion remains largely below the radar
“Logging, shifting cultivation, fires or natural catastrophe all make forests susceptible to invasion.”
News
- 16 Oct 2014
Development miracle or environmental disaster? A look behind the oil palm controversy
“The picture is more complex; oil palm is neither one thing nor the other but both at the same time.”
Interview
- 16 Oct 2014
‘Don’t confuse the crop with the people who develop it’: Q&A with palm oil researcher
Scientists become involved after environmentalists call for a boycott of palm oil.
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