Land degradation due to water logging and its influence on secondary soil salinization processes pose a major threat to the…
Authors: Devkota, M.; Martius, C.; Gupta, R.K.; Devkota, K.P.; McDonald, A.J.; Lamers, J.P.A.
Publication Research Theme Products and Trade
Carbon accumulation of tropical peatlands over millennia: a modeling approach
Publication Year : 2015
Tropical peatlands cover an estimated 440,000 km2 (~10% of global peatland area) and are significant in the global carbon cycle…
Authors: Kurnianto, S.; Warren, M.; Talbot, J.; Kauffman, J.B.; Murdiyarso, D.; Frolking, S.
Synthesising bushmeat research effort in West and Central Africa: A new regional database
Publication Year : 2015
Unsustainable hunting threatens both biodiversity and local livelihoods. Despite high levels of research effort focused on understanding the dynamics of…
Authors: Taylor, G.; Scharlemann, J.P.W.; Rowcliffe, M.; Kumpel, N.; Harfoot, M.B.J.; Fa, J.E.; Melisch, R.; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Bhagwat, S.A.; Abernethy, K.; Ajonina, A.S.; Albrechtsen, L.; Allebone-Webb, S; Brown, E.; Brugiere, D.; Clark, C.; Colell, M.; Cowlishaw, G.; Crookes, D.; De Merode, E.; Dupain, J.; East, T.; Edderai, D.; Elkan, P.; Gill, D.; Greengrass, E.; Hodgkinson, C.; Ilambu, O.; Jeanmart, P.; Juste, J.; Linder, J.M.; Macdonald, D. W.; Noss, A.J.; Okorie, P.U.; Okouyi, V.J.J.; Pailler, S.; Poulsen, J.R.; Riddell, M.; Schleicher, J.; Schulte-Herbrüggen, B.; Starkey, M.; Van Vliet, N.; Whitham, C.; Willcox, A.S.; Wilkie, D.S.; Wright, J.H.; Coad, L.M.
Energy Challenges: Threats or Opportunities?
Publication Year : 2015
Intertwined with agricultural issues and closely linked to the challenges of poverty, the production of and access to energy are…
Authors: Dabat, M.-H.; Gautier, D.; Gazull, L; Pinta, F.
Can we go beyond timber and manage for both timber and non-timber forest products?: The case of rattans near Kisangani, DR Congo
Publication Year : 2015
Rattans, one of the major non-timber forest products used by the population in and around Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo),…
Authors: Kahindo, J.-M.; Nasi, R.; Mate, J.-P.; Rigal, C.
Coping with the upheavals of globalization in the shea value chain: The maintenance and relevance of upstream shea nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso
Publication Year : 2015
Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite…
Authors: Rousseau, K.; Gautier, D.; Wardell, D.A.
Institutions and access to woodfuel commerce in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Publication Year : 2015
A new generation of woodfuel studies focuses on the political dynamics behind access to the woodfuel trade, providing better insights…
Authors: Schure, J.; Ingram, V.; Arts, B.; Levang, P.; Mvula-Mampasi, E.
Woodfuel in a global change context
Publication Year : 2015
The use of woodfuel to meet the demand for energy has regularly reappeared on both European and African political agendas…
Authors: Gazull, L; Gautier, D.
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The Africa – China timber trade: Diverse business models call for specialized policy responses [Chinese]
Publication Year : 2014
China has become the largest importer of tropical wood and is the destination of more than three-quarters of Africas timber…
Authors: Weng, X.; Putzel, L.; Kandulu, M.M.; Ekman, S.-M.S; Zafinikamia, M.-L.B.; Assembe-Mvondo, S.; Cerutti, P.O.; Lescuyer, G.
Does production of oil palm, soybean, or jatropha change biodiversity and ecosystem functions in tropical forests
Publication Year : 2014
Background. Biofuels, or fuels derived from transformation of biological matter, are hailed by some as a promising source of renewable…
Authors: Savilaakso, S.; Laumonier, Y.; Guariguata, M.R.; Nasi, R.