By John C. Weber and Carmen Sotelo Montes According to most climate forecasts, people in the West African Sahel— an arid to semi-arid belt stretching across northern Africa—can expect a hotter, drier and more variable climate this century....

Nations need to be able to account for their carbon stock in order to know if they are reducing greenhouse gas emissions or not. Different techniques give different results, depending on the level of precision, and there are...

Technical definitions of ‘forest’ and ‘agriculture’ have severely hampered efforts to protect forests, reduce carbon emissions and enhance food security. It’s time to think beyond these categories, says Meine van Noordwijk   Anecdote has it that colonial foresters in...

To fully engage in market opportunities, smallholders in Sulawesi must understand what traders and consumers really need  and start growing what sells, instead of merely selling what grows. This is according to a paper published by Perdana and...

It has been promoted in Kenya as a biofuel crop that can grow well almost anywhere, but newly published research into yields from the jatropha tree across the country shows 79 per cent of farmers obtained just 0.1kg...