Making informed decisions on how to reduce carbon emissions from forestry and agriculture requires some solid knowledge about potential tradeoffs between development and conservation objectives: what you manage to win through avoided deforestation or r…
To meet growing global demands for food without losing more forests to conversion, we need innovation in forestry practices to keep space for productive forests while meeting ever-growing societal needs. This presentation explores the potential of mult…
With bushmeat accounting for as much as 80 percent of fats and proteins in diets across the Congo Basin, most experts agree: The dilemma is not whether forest-dwellers should be allowed to hunt and eat animals captured in the wild, but how to do it sus…
Which actor holds the right to the land is going to determine how the resources will be used: this presentation looks at the dynamic between land tenure and land use change in the Brazilian Amazon.
So said World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Chief Scientist Meine van Noordwijk, in view of the important role of trees in conserving biodiversity, reducing the impacts of climate change and protecting the landscape against desertification, while speakin…
