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…
The first tracking system for habitat loss across Latin America, Terra-i, illustrates the contrasting scenarios surrounding deforestation on the Guatemala-Belize border between 2004 and 2010.
With global demand for commodities like palm oil, soy and beef rapidly increasing, and the supply of usable lands dwindling, can forests survive? Can the planet’s growing billions be better fed, clothed and housed without destroying tropical forests?
