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  • Knowledge | Brazil: Scaling up Renewable Charcoal Production

    03.22.12

    PROFOR and the BioCarbon Fund are co-financing a study designed to identify institutional and financial arrangements required to mainstream forest plantation business models and promote the potential development of CDM projects aimed at reducing GHG emissions in the forestry and iron supply chains in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

  • Field Notes | A Perennial Perspective

    01.12.12

    Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre Tony Simons delivered a meaty, 102-slide presentation on "The Science Needs of Development: A perennial perspective" that gave rise to many questions. How do you nudge societies to adopt a tree planting culture? Why is the science of scaling up successful programs still so elusive? Can we emulate the health sector in this regard?

  • Field Notes | Wrapping your brain around the global "forest sink"

    12.20.11

    Perhaps no other graphic at Forest Day 5 was as enlightening and intriguing as the carbon sink accounting diagram shared by Bob Scholes. Now that CIFOR has posted it online, we can all ponder it at leisure.

  • News & Events | Dry Forests Symposium

    12.13.11

    This one-day symposium provided a global platform for representatives from the research and development sector to openly discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in the sustainable use of dry forests, within broader agricultural landscapes.

  • Page | Miombo Annexes

    11.23.11

  • Field Notes | Voices from the Baka

    11.23.11

    Colleagues from the World Bank Africa region worked with IUCN to document what is happening to a corner of the vast tropical forest in Cameroon, seen from the perspective of the Baka people.  The 9-mn movie is embedded here.

  • Field Notes | What Indonesia Stands to Gain

    04.26.11

    Cost-benefit analysis of REDD+ measures may be misleading for many reasons. With this in mind, consultant Dominic Elson tried to refute opportunity cost assumptions and map out the consequences of 'Going Green' vs. 'Business as Usual' in the case of Indonesia. He found found that Indonesia has much to gain by changing its approach to land use and reducing emissions.

  • Field Notes | Record Gold Prices Drive Deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

    04.20.11

    A new study published in the online journal PLoS ONE establishes a strong link between rising gold prices, mercury imports and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.

  • Field Notes | Trade-offs and other REDD+ scenarios

    03.31.11

    It's easy to think the trade-off between forests and agriculture is a lost cause for trees. Didactic charts in a newly published REDD+ manual provide theoretical ground for optimism.

  • Field Notes | Good news for forests?

    02.10.11

    We asked Klaus Deininger, lead author of Rising Global Interest in Farmland, to tell us -- in a nutshell -- what recent land acquisition trends mean for forests.
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