The paper, available in English and French, targeted at government, private sector and civil society, seeks to stimulate a debate regarding the palm oil industry’s growing demand for large tracts of land in Cameroon, notably in forest areas. The gove…
This paper examines trends associated with commercial agriculture expansion in South America. It emphasises soybean and oil palm expansion associated with food, feed and biofuel markets, paying particular attention to their economic, social and environ…
Improving quality of life (QoL) is one of the main goals of many public policies. A useful tool to measure QoL needs to get a good balance between indicators guided by theories (top-down approach) and indicators defined by local people (bottom-up appro…
Accounting for age-dependent patterns of knowledge transmission is critical for understanding cultural evolution in age-structured populations. Cultural evolution theory predicts which social learning biases we expect people to use, but much less often when—during a person’s life cycle— different social learning biases will be used. By measuring knowledge and skill
Africa’s dry forests key to food security Dry forests are particularly susceptible to climate change, yet they are also the main food supply for around 30 countries in Africa. The Center for International Forestry Research and its partners are wo…
