There is a strong legal foundation for gendered approaches to forests and forest resources due to constitutional guarantees and principles of gender equity throughout much of Nicaragua’s legal and policy framework. There are important gaps, however.
Rural communities in Cameroon rely heavily on forests for everything from their nutritional and medicinal needs to fuel for cooking and will be unable to adapt to climate change without significant outside help, a new study has found.
If Vietnam wants its timber producers to benefit from the growing eco-conscious and more lucrative international furniture market, national forest institutions should look for ways to get plantation forests certified, said Louis Putzel, a senior scient…
Thoughts from CIFOR’s Director General: On 2 December 2012, I shall have the honour of opening the sixth edition of Forest Day at the 18th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha. This w…
When people ask us about our research, we answer: we are working on land-use planning. We rarely receive another question. Land use planning indeed seems the most boring topic for research: dry, bureaucratic and administrative, probably some kind of ho…
