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To combat desertification and regreen arid and semi-arid areas in Ethiopia and seven other countries, a consortium of partners faces big challenges A ‘perfect storm’ of challenges is facing the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by Scaling-up Evergreen...
Researchers are co-developing ways of ensuring scientific data and information is useable by the people who need it. We all know the basic concept of supply and demand in economics, which makes sense in most settings: the more...
The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry has members from government and civil society committed to support the development of agroforestry in ASEAN member states The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable...
Restoration has never been more important, with almost a third of the world’s land surface degraded. But what exactly is restoration? And how do we know if it works? More than 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest people...
Agroforestry’s ability to produce multiple benefits can make it a key feature of Peru’s innovative and multi-sectoral approach to NDCs. What is needed to fully harness it? Climate action is increasingly a country-led and country-driven process. Through...
Workshops in Tanzania to better understand the context of woodfuel (charcoal and firewood) systems and plan for sustainable interventions brought together communities, governments, NGOs and businesses in three regions. We have just returned from Tanzania where we witnessed...
A new network of agroforestry experts is forming in the Mekong region to share knowledge about agroforestry for food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and land restoration. The establishment of the Expert Group is timely, coming as the...
Teak is one of the most sought-after hardwoods in the world. A substantial amount is grown by smallholders in Latin America, Africa and Asia, who need help to improve production. James M. Roshetko and Aulia Perdana of...
The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry has called on civil society organizations to help speed the handover of forest rights to communities. Despite valiant efforts in the last two years to overcome the complexities of community...
A forest tree is being domesticated that produces a substance as valuable as gold. But it’s not as simple as it might seem. Domestication of forest products that are overharvested in the wild is expected to...
Widespread land degradation is an increasing threat to ecosystem health, food production systems and livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa.
Representatives of several ASEAN member states agreed that closer integration of community forestry across the region would help to improve farmers’ livelihoods, trade and environmental management. The representatives from Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam discussed the achievements and...
在此阅读中文版文章 Land degradation is at the nexus of a vicious spiral which links low land productivity and biodiversity loss with poverty, hunger, instability and insecurity. Land degradation, for instance, releases carbon, worsening global climate change; it reduces crop...
Land degradation has long been recognized as a major problem which threatens ecological health, social stability and economic prosperity.