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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
- 4 Jan 2013
The world’s shrinking food basket: Why it is critical we increase crop diversity
Two key words for resilient food systems: genetic diversity and indigenous knowledge.
News
- 1 Jan 2013
BEST OF 2012: Mangrove conservation grapples against development
Local fishermen will be trained in aquatic resource management, but is conservation what the community needs?
Event Coverage
- 27 Dec 2012
“Designer plants” help meet demand for palm oil and avoid deforestation
Scientists hope to replace low-yielding oil palms with selectively bred high yielding plants, dramatically increasingly yield.
Feature
- 26 Dec 2012
BEST OF 2012: Going once, going twice…the great green land grab
Market-based solutions are perceived as the overriding panacea to the world’s environmental problems. Are they?
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.
Event Coverage
- 21 Dec 2012
Scientists show technical concerns no longer an obstacle to progress on REDD+
Obstacles to reaching agreement on monitoring of carbon emissions are political, not technical.
13 Dec 2012
New research helps map better future for Papuan communities
BOGOR, Indonesia (13 December, 2012)_Researchers working with forest communities in northern Papua have developed a series of maps pinpointing the location...
Event Coverage
- 11 Dec 2012
Disappointing outcome for forests in Doha, but REDD+ can still move forward
Workshops proposed to help countries better understand where and how they can afford to change practices and cut emissions.
11 Dec 2012
Scientists ‘reach consensus’ on global deforestation emissions
DOHA, Qatar (11 December 2012)__Two groups of scientists who this year published widely differing estimates of global carbon emissions from deforestation...
DG’s Column
- 11 Dec 2012
COP18 was not good enough: Time to rethink green sectors’ approach for 2015
BOGOR, Indonesia (11 December, 2012)_The UNFCCC COP18 in Doha worked overtime to finally agree not to disagree. While the green sectors (forestry and agriculture)...
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