Models for smallholder and community forest management need to be rethought if certification – a key tool for ensuring sustainable forest management – is to succeed.


Models for smallholder and community forest management need to be rethought if certification – a key tool for ensuring sustainable forest management – is to succeed.

Enough talk about the right women have to forest resources and a need for greater participation in decision-making, leaders and researchers at a U.N. conference on sustainable development say. It’s time, now, for action.

Scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research have developed an innovative new method that allows countries to begin setting greenhouse gas Reference Emissions Levels

A new approach to managing land based on the social, economic and environmental services it provides could end the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed

Countries considering bioenergy investment as a way to improve rural incomes and meet other policy goals could be given a glimpse into the future.