GCARD2: Social media can be more than “a means”. It can be “a purpose” too!


GCARD2: Social media can be more than “a means”. It can be “a purpose” too!
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After a highly aggressive mystery maize disease crippled crops in 2011, Kenya’s number two crop – potato – could be…

The world’s top forestry experts and high-profile decision makers gathered on the sidelines of the UN Climate talks yesterday for the last Forest Day, as the event shifts to a more integrated focus on achieving food security and overcoming climate ch…

Forestry experts have called for a new approach to managing land and tackling climate change – challenging the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed for the sake of rural development and food security.

“Are you a driver or a passenger in deforestation?” asked Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, as he opened a discussion forum that was part of Forest Day 6, held on 2 December 2012 in Doha, Qatar in conjunction with the …
The geographic distribution of Bornean orangutans and its overlap with existing land-use categories (protected areas, logging and plantation concessions) is a necessary foundation to prioritize conservation planning. An estimated 49% of the orang-utan …
The rapid expansion of biofuel production and consumption has raised concerns over the social and environmental sustainability of biofuel feedstock production, processing and trade.
We assessed how numbers of useful species as reported by indigenous forest-dwelling people relate to plant species richness. Useful species increase with species richness in all cases.
