Archive for July, 2013

A new CIFOR analysis shows 21% of haze-causing fires in Indonesia in June were in industrial oil palm and pulp plantations.

Smallholders deliver soybeans to well-organized markets in Malawi ICRISAT/M.Winslow In late June it was my great honor to receive the Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture for 2013 from the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Scien…

Trade treaties may be one tool for addressing illegal logging, but they are no substitute for effective forest-management policy in exporting countries, says Pablo Pacheco, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research.