Agroforestry World
Rebecca Selvarajah
Rebecca is a science writer, manager of publishing projects, trainer in science writing, and novelist — working partly from Nairobi, Kenya and partly from Morwell, Australia. With over 15 years of experience in writing, advertising/marketing, publishing and social media, she takes on varied assignments, travelling, if needed, to conduct relevant research and interviews. Originally from Sri Lanka, Rebecca holds a BA honours in Psychology, with minors in Gender Studies and Sociology. Email Rebecca on r.selvarajah@cgiar.org
A national program designed to improve ecosystem services in China is, in reality, replacing natural forests with monoculture plantations. This is according to an article by Zhai et al in Regional Environmental Change. Under current Chinese policy, plantations...
China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program had high ideals but a new study has shown that while it has increased the amount of tree cover it has failed to protect natural forests, say De Li Zhai, Jian Chu Xu,...
Paying people to conserve environmental services is not as easy as it first seemed, say Daniel Cremaschi, Rodel Lasco and Rafaela Delfino According to neoclassical economic assumptions, the concept of ‘payments for environmental services’ is based on...