climate change
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News & Events | Forests for Food Security and Nutrition
06.06.13PROFOR participated in several panel discussions at the International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition which will be held at FAO on May 13-15, 2013.
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Knowledge | Brazil: Scaling up Renewable Charcoal Production
04.24.13PROFOR 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.
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Knowledge | Impacts of Climate Change on Rural Landscapes in Brazil
04.05.13PROFOR supported the creation of a multidisciplinary team grouping experts from Brazil's leading research agencies to improve climate change assessments and map climate impacts on agriculture and forests in Brazil over the next 20 years. Improved assessments provide crucial information to policy makers on priorities, geographical targeting, and phasing of investments for adataptation and mitigation to climate change.
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Knowledge | Institutional Analysis and Landscape Level Planning Guidelines for Watershed Development in India
01.10.13Watershed management will be key to feeding a growing population. Rainfed regions have lagged far behind and have experienced severe resource degradation due to inappropriate land use, poor husbandry and low investments. Longer-term climate change adds another worrying dimension.This activity aims to improve watershed management in India.
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Knowledge | Adaptation-Based Mitigation in Degraded Landscapes Vulnerable to High Climatic Variation
01.08.13This activity, focused on Central America, aims to identify key policy measures and institutional arrangements needed to drive collective action at the landscape level that would restore degraded landscapes, improve resilience to climate change, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
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News & Events | COP-18 Side Event: Making Sustainable Forests a Reality
11.29.12Exploring the power of investors and companies to help save the world’s forests and fight climate change
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Knowledge | Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change
11.15.12Developing 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 6 and Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day in Doha
11.07.12Forest Day 6 and Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelhoods Day were held this year under a common banner, during the annual United Nations climate change conference in Doha, Qatar.
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Field Notes | Insights and highlights from a week of PPTs
10.05.12Powerpoints and speeches delivered during COFO21 and World Forest Week co