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  • 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 | Going Granular in Ghana

    12.20.11

    PROFOR first supported the mapping of landscape restoration opportunities at the global level. It is now drilling down at the country level with an assessment in Ghana. A new map provides a detailed and current picture of Ghana's land cover -- something that was missing until now.

  • 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 | 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.

  • Field Notes | Wangari Maathai Tribute Film

    12.13.11

    To commemorate and honor the life of Professor Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Laureate who died earlier this year, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) opened Forest Day 5 with a short and moving video about her work.

  • 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.  

  • Field Notes | "Climate-Smart Agriculture" in South Africa

    09.14.11

    Agroforestry and landscape restoration featured prominently among the "climate-smart agriculture" solutions that were discussed this week at an African Ministerial conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.

  • Field Notes | Global Effort to Restore 150 Million Hectares of Deforested Land

    09.02.11

    A global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 was announced today in Bonn. This comes on the heel of a revised global assessement that doubles the amount of land with potential for restoration to 2 billion hectares.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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