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  • Knowledge | Forests and Rural Livelihood in the Kyrgyz Republic - Development Potentials

    01.25.12

    The reports' findings should help inform implementation of government and donor interventions to improve forest management, with a focus on the relationships between State Forest Enterprises inherited from the Soviet era (lezkozes) and local villagers in harvesting timber and NTFPs. In particular, the formulation of specific recommendations for overcoming policy and value chain problems should help increase the benefits that communities derive from forests and their products.

  • Field Notes | Counting Trees, Managing Mushrooms

    07.14.11

    A look at the use of ICTs to track tree planting on small farms in Kenya. And a peek at the work behind the new "FairWild" standard developed by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Both efforts are ultimately about keeping track of trees and plants thanks to much-improved technology.

  • Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Carbon credits and baobab powder

    06.29.11

    In the last installment of videos we filmed at the Investment Forum in Kenya, we focus on two products that have market potential: carbon credits and baobab powder.

  • Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Danone

    06.06.11

    Speaking at the Nairobi investment forum on trees and landscape restoration last month, Danone's VP for Sustainability shared his company's experience with agroforestry and ecosystem restoration, in Senegal and elsewhere. The company's work, in partnership with IUCN, helped develop a recently-adopted carbon accounting methodology for mangroves.

  • Field Notes | Money on Trees

    06.01.11

    The Nairobi investment forum which wrapped up last week provided a one-of-a-kind inventory of private sector opportunities related to growing trees, marketing tree products and restoring degraded landscapes in partnership with civil society and government. The next step is to draw up an action plan to make sure that the contacts and good ideas generated by the forum translate into new investments.

  • Knowledge | Forest Enterprise Information Exchange (FEINEX)

    06.09.09
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