CIFOR has produced a new set of ‘best practice guidelines’ to be used to inform policy makers on how to balance competing pressures on land while protecting forests and biodiversity. The new guidelines were taken into consideration by UN research.
Archive for June, 2013
Feeding fish in Chiunda village, Zomba, Malawi. Photo taken by Stevie Mann, 2007.
WorldFish posted a photo: Dennis Kanyema, a member of the Mawila Intergrated Fish Farmers Club is feeding fish with chicken manure in his pond. The ponds are located collectively but owned and farmed individually by the 35 members to ease water transpo…
CIFOR to begin research on China’s reforestation program – unprecedented in scale
CIFOR has launched a new partnership with the China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center to improve the monitoring and evaluation of the ‘Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program’ (CCFP) or ‘Grain for Green’.
Chinese fishmongers in China. Photo taken by Hong Meen Chee, 2009.
Fields of plenty
It’s 2063. Indian farmer Prabhjit Kumar finds herself running a profitable and environmentally friendly business thanks to rice agricultural research