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  • 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.

  • Knowledge | South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America

    12.19.11

    The experience of payments for environmental services (PES) systems set up in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador in the last decade provides valuable insights for shaping REDD+ strategies in participating countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Between them, these programs are currently helping to conserve over 3 million hectares of forests. Their experience shows how to make PES work, but also -- problems to avoid.

  • Knowledge | Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change

    12.13.11

    Developing countries are expected to suffer the most from changes in climatic patterns.
    Forest and tree management could provide a low-cost approach to enhancing resilience of local landscapes to climate change but needs to balance production, livelihood, adaptation and mitigation goals.

  • 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.

  • News & Events | Forest Day 5 in Durban, South Africa

    12.13.11

    Forest Day 5 was held in Durban, South Africa on 4 December 2011, to coincide with climate change talks. Read related content and speeches.

  • Knowledge | Mobilizing Private Investment in Trees and Landscape Restoration in Africa

    11.16.11

    Despite the very considerable body of on-farm experience which has been gained in testing agroforestry and other tree-based technologies for their impact on increasing productivity and on rural income generation, investment in agroforestry, tree planting and landscape restoration has been lagging. This activity aimed to shed light on potential private investment opportunities and identify policy, regulatory and institutional constraints that could be lifted to help tap this potential.  

  • Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest Dependent Communities

    10.05.11

    Building on a report titled Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing: Insights on What Makes Collaborative Arrangements Work for Communities and Landowners and field work in Latin America and Africa, PROFOR is supporting a study drilling down on two questions of particular interest in the context of REDD initiatives: how to identify legitimate beneficiaries, and how to identify appropriate mechanisms for sharing benefits.

  • Field Notes | Will Indonesia Get it Right?

    09.28.11

    Peter Dewees, PROFOR's manager, attended the noteworthy Forests Indonesia conference yesterday. He shares his impressions in this dispatch.

  • Knowledge | Assessing the Potential for Forest Landscape Restoration

    08.13.11

    Preliminary findings from a global assessment indicate that there is a total area of lost and degraded forest lands of more than 1 billion hectares worldwide that is suitable and available for restoration – an area greater than that of China. This is good news at a time when growing demand for food and fuel inspire fear of land scarcity and motivate questionable "land grabs" around the world.

  • Knowledge | Chile: Forests, Trees and Conservation in Degraded Lands

    07.01.11

    Chile is one of the most developed countries in the southern hemisphere and relies heavily on its natural resource base for employment and exports. Yet, despite its natural assets and economic prowess, the country is plagued by serious land degradation problems including desertification, accelerated soil erosion, and forest degradation. This activity will provide knowledge to the Chilean Government and other stakeholders on best practices and guidance for restoration of degraded lands through forestry applications suitable for the Chilean context.
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