Thoughts from CIFOR’s Director General: On 2 December 2012, I shall have the honour of opening the sixth edition of Forest Day at the 18th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha. This w…
Mekong examines the issues of hydropower development and its impact on Mekong citizen’s lives. It features stories of Mekong Citizen’s up and down the river, from fishers on the Tonle Sap, activists still fighting at the Pak Mun dam in Thai…
Farmers in Tanzania got involved in a soil survey to learn more about the fertility status of their fields. Land degradation is seen as one of the causes of low agricultural yields as well as loss of biodiversity. Increasingly, researchers are also lin…
When people ask us about our research, we answer: we are working on land-use planning. We rarely receive another question. Land use planning indeed seems the most boring topic for research: dry, bureaucratic and administrative, probably some kind of ho…
Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company. They’re hoping to bolster scientific eviden…
