Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Food Tank is highlighting stories of hope, innovation, and success in...
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The recent devastating floods in southern Malawi and surrounding areas...
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The recent devastating floods in southern Malawi and surrounding areas brought into sharp focus the reality of climate change and its effects on ordinary people in this landlocked southern African country. Besides floods, delayed rains and droughts have...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday...
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The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in...
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The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre and the RUPES project has been maintaining ‘learning landscapes’ for over a decade to discover ways of helping poor smallholders’ improve their...
The Way Besai watershed, which was experiencing conflict, is now...
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The Way Besai watershed, which was experiencing conflict, is now harmonious thanks to an initiative by a CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry team from the World Agroforestry Centre In 2014, the Community Forestry Farmers’...
Uganda is hosting a conference and technical workshop in late March to...
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The cacao or cocoa tree is one of the most important trees of the...
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Rwanda’s efforts to balance its increasing population with protection...
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Smallholder farmers and rural people can play a critical role in...
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A group of 186 farmers have graduated from a climate-smart agriculture...
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Indonesia’s newly formed Ministry of Environment and Forestry has...
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Indonesia’s newly formed Ministry of Environment and Forestry has adopted recommendations from studies conducted by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and the RUPES project As one of its first initiatives, in January 2015...
Seventy women scientists from across Africa have just been awarded...
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In 2014, AgFor Sulawesi welcomed a young intern, Nicholas A. Roshetko,...
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Di tahun 2014, AgFor Sulawesi menerima seorang siswa magang, Nicholas A...
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Thanks to a pilot established by the World Agroforestry Centre,...
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Thanks to a pilot established by the World Agroforestry Centre, Indonesia’s state electricity company is now expanding ecosystem services’ schemes throughout the island of Sumatra The State Electricity Company of Indonesia (Perusahaan Listrik Negara/PLN) has mandated the...
The need to pay more attention to small-scale farmers and agro-...
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In a move to further boost agroforestry in the East Indian State of...
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Improved varieties of indigenous African species - Baobab, groundnuts,...
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A new climate deal is expected to be negotiated in Paris at the end of...
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An article in The Guardian’s FAO Partner Zone looks at how soil – which...
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Chief Minister of the Indian State of Punjab, Mr Parkash Singh Badal,...
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At least 10 improved planting materials from orphaned crops will soon...
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Does combating climate change require burning the world’s forests and...
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Does combating climate change require burning the world’s forests and crops for fuel? It certainly looks that way, judging from the aggressive mandates governments around the globe have set to incorporate bioenergy into their transportation fuels in the...
Jayawijaya regency in central Papua province, Indonesia, is combing...
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Jayawijaya regency in central Papua province, Indonesia, is combing local ecological wisdom with scientific technical support to devise low-emission development through land-use plans The Baliem Valley in central Papua has no road access and was only ‘discovered’...
A small, remote village in Papua province, Indonesia, wants to share...
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A small, remote village in Papua province, Indonesia, wants to share the knowledge it has gained to help slow climate change, beginning with the ambassador of the European Union The village of Wambena, clinging to a clifftop...
According to researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre, oil-palm...
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According to researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre, oil-palm plantations can help climate-change mitigation by not only reducing greenhouse-gas emissions through use as a biofuel but also by sequestering a considerable amount of carbon In the Philippines,...
In the Philippines, the Biofuels Act of 2006 mandates a 2% biodiesel...
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Home to a vast area of natural forests considered critical to slowing...
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Home to a vast area of natural forests considered critical to slowing climate change, Papua province in Indonesia is ready to develop a ‘green economy’ but the world isn’t ready to invest Committed to retaining 80% of...
Farmers in Thailand who have resisted monoculture plantations and are...
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A new policy in Ghana is expected to restore half of Ghana’s degraded...
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