The world is increasingly concerned with providing enough food for its growing population in the face of a changing climate. Agroforestry can be the key to meeting the challenge   By Enggar Paramita   Ensuring national food security...

One quarter of the world’s population depends on water from forested catchments. No one knows this better than Jay Humphries. “In 1900 this land was grazed off and forested out,” the watershed manager told foresters visiting Utah’s Wasatch...

Researchers in the Philippines are collecting local ecological knowledge from smallholders as a first step in supporting farmers’ adaptation to climate variability and market fluctuations     Using the Capacity-strengthening Approach to Vulnerability Assessment (CaSAVA) method, researchers are...

  South Korea, South Africa and Ethiopia are among the many countries around the world that have successfully used or are now applying the power of trees to restore degraded landscapes and bring back life-giving ecosystem services and...

The future resilience of restored forests and landscapes across the globe may be threatened if there is little genetic diversity in the trees that are used. Speakers at a session during Tree Diversity Day, organized by the World...

What influences landowners to sign and implement contracts on land-use change? Implementation of REDD+ requires knowledge of the factors influencing these decisions and actions. In an article published in World Development, Samuel Skidmore (University of Sydney), Paulo Santos...

With a single bamboo pole able to provide rudimentary power to a rural household for a month, could bamboo provide an answer to energy poverty in many parts of the developing world? An estimated 2.6 billion people rely...

“Biofuels can have a positive effect on food security, provide new sources of income and employment for smallholders, and are a viable alternative source of energy for rural communities,” outlined Navin Sharma, Biofuel Programme Manager with the World...