Agroforestry World
Rob Finlayson
Robert Finlayson is the Southeast Asia program’s regional communications specialist. As well as writing stories for the Centre’s website, he devises and supervises strategies for projects and the countries in the Southeast Asia region, including scripting and producing videos, supervising editors and translators and also assisting with resource mobilization.
By Meine van Noordwijk The Centre’s chief science advisor reflects on 25 years of research and debate. First in a series of articles related to the Centre’s history of research and its continuing relevance. On 13 October...
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...
By Xu Jianchu and Edward Grumbine Rapid land-use transformations are occurring in the Mekong Region, especially in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, in southwestern China, thanks primarily to the spread of monocultural rubber plantations. Our team at the...
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...
By Robert Finlayson Zhuangfang Yi of the World Agroforestry Centre’s China and East Asia Node recently presented a report about her and her colleagues’ work in China to the final workshop of the Rewards for, Use of,...