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The Bandiagara plateau in Central Mali has been hit by repeated droughts. Climate change is making the weather unpredictable, resulting in poor harvests and increased malnutrition (Photo: Irina Mosel/ODI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Mali is extremely vulnerable and unable to combat climate change impacts
Article, 24 November 2015
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
Article, 31 March 2006
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… in Nepal (12-15 February 2013). Nepal is a world leader in community forestry, with roughly 18,000 groups established across 1.8 million …
Insight, 18 February 2013
CLACC Fellows gather in Durban, South Africa
Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC)
… disaster preparedness and response, health, agriculture and forestry, and fed this information into national adaptation planning and …
Project, 05 September 2008
The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… publicly available contracts for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects Land rights and investment treaties: exploring the …
Insight, 20 October 2015
Deforestation in Bhutan: forests are a prime example of how an integrated approach to policymaking can prevent benefits in one area undermining wellbeing elsewhere (Photo: Curt Carnemark/World Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?
… set out in REDD+ and the Global Objectives on Forests (GOF) . As forestry policy experts gather in New York for the 11th session of the …
Insight, 01 May 2015
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the AMFN. He has led or contributed to … Jarju Pa Ousman Jarju is the Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Forestry, Water and Wildlife and the Special Climate Change Envoy for …
Article, 03 August 2015
A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
… follow that path last week, when I had the good fortune to attend a forestry conference in China . China is of course ahead of the game. As …
Insight, 20 December 2013
Hotel Sri Tahjung
Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
… collide or coexist.  In February 2012, the Center for International Forestry Research published a study that shows how traditional …
Insight, 21 February 2012
REDD+: a win-win deal is possible!
… benefits to communities is not straightforward. Mozambique’s land and forestry legislation is perhaps better framed as it contains provisions …
Insight, 17 November 2011