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Video
- 6 Feb 2013
Small businesses band together to meet high cost of Indonesia’s timber certification scheme
Furniture makers want to do their part in conserving Indonesia's forest by creating sustainable products.
4 Feb 2013
Is financing sustainable forest management an inappropriate use of public funding?
BOGOR, Indonesia (4 February, 2013)_The long-running debate about how best to conserve forests and improve livelihoods in forest-rich tropical countries...
News
- 30 Jan 2013
Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach to the ‘people in parks’ problem in Indonesia?
“special use” zones in national parks could provide a mechanism for protecting local rights.
Analysis
- 25 Jan 2013
Potential of bamboo to alleviate poverty in rural China remains untapped: Expert
Rural Chinese farmers enthusiastically embrace bamboo as a profitable cash crop.
Video
- 15 Jan 2013
How much credit can Brazil take for slowing Amazon deforestation – and how low can it go?
Brazil’s government claims a 76 percent reduction in deforestation rate since 2004.
Event Coverage
- 9 Jan 2013
Green growth in Myanmar: an emerging democracy’s vision for future development
Myanmar is home to one of Southeast Asia's largest expanses of natural forest, but for how much longer?
News
- 30 Dec 2012
Big Brother is watching: Forest surveillance systems could reveal new terrestrial animals
Local communities may see for the first some the species that are living in their forests.
News
- 24 Dec 2012
BEST OF 2012: Supernatural powers play key role in forest use
A strictly secular approach to forest management may be at odds with local attitudes.
News
- 22 Dec 2012
Landscape-based certification scheme aims to lift poverty by engaging communities
Landscape labelling offers payments to community-based organisations to manage unique and diverse rural landscapes.
News
- 19 Dec 2012
Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local people
Are conservation organizations keeping people in poverty?
News
- 17 Dec 2012
For indigenous people in Latin America, land rights are only half the battle
The need to tip the power balance through the empowerment of local actors.
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