By Meine van Noordwijk, Hesti L. Tata, Sonya Dewi and Peter Minang Rubber’s history in China and Indonesia points to a monocultural future. Is it too late to promote ‘green’ rubber?   In China, rubber was introduced as...

The food crisis, environmental crisis and the social crisis are all closely linked, and so the Livelihoods initiative was set up. Livelihood’s mission is to support the efforts of agricultural and rural communities to live in sustainable ecosystems...

While India has taken bold steps to move to cleaner fuels, a biting shortage of jatropha fruits used to produce biodiesel means the country will not meet its 2012 target of blending five percent biodiesel into all regular...

By Robert Finlayson Schemes that reward poor farmers for protecting the environment can succeed if they meet several conditions, say scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre in Indonesia.   Scientists, governments and civil society organizations have been working together...