Efforts to prevent agricultural activity inside an Indonesian national park that is a stronghold for the endangered Moluccan cockatoo could backfire, negatively affecting the very species the park was created to protect, ongoing research by CIFOR indic…
Fifty years of research have culminated in the understanding that a radically new approach to agriculture is needed. African smallholder farmers need truly practical, low-cost, low-risk ways to make their farms more productive.
The emergence of subnational REDD+ projects in southwestern Amazonia is showing potential for multiple-use management of non-timber forest products, particularly Brazil nuts, and forest carbon.
Agricultural reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon have often been associated with high deforestation rates, so seem a natural target for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). But differences in the deforestat…
Despite a multitude of land tenure reforms over the past 20 years opening legal channels for communities to gain rights to their forests, the fair sharing of forest management responsibilities between local people and governments is still a major strug…
