The countries in the Congo Basin are poor and vulnerable and, as such, suffer from the negative effects of climate…
Authors: Kengoum Djiegni, F.
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Risky business: Uptake and implementation of sustainability standards and certification schemes in the Indonesian palm oil sector
Publication Year : 2015
Evolving international sustainability norms demand greater environmental and social responsibility from business across global commodity chains – from countries of…
Authors: Gnych, S.; Limberg, G.; Paoli, G.
Potencial de manejo de bosques restaurados por sucesión natural secundaria en Guanacaste, Costa Rica: composición, diversidad y especies maderables
Publication Year : 2013
Este estudio se llevo a cabo en la peninsula de Nicoya en Costa Rica, un paisaje sometido a la restauracion…
Authors: Granda Moser, V.; Finegan, B.; Ramos Bendaña, Z.S.; Detlefsen Rivera, G.; Molina, A.
El bosque secundario en Centroamérica: un recurso potencial de uso limitado por procedimientos y normativas inadecuadas
Publication Year : 2015
En los países tropicales, el área de bosque primario está disminuyendo, pero aumenta el área de bosque secundario. Ya existen…
Authors: Henao Bravo, E.I.; Ordoñez, Y.; de Camino Velozo, R.; Villalobos Soto, R.; Carrera Gambeta, F.
People in motion, forests in transition: Trends in migration, urbanization, and remittances and their effects on tropical forests
Publication Year : 2015
Migration is not new. In recent decades however, human mobility has increased in numbers and scope and has helped fuel…
Authors: Hecht, S.B.; Yang, A.L.; Sijapati Basnett, B.; Padoch, C.; Peluso, N.L.
Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land use investments in Zambia: Legal assessment report
Publication Year : 2015
The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) assessed the legal frameworks that govern…
Authors: Sambo, P.T.; Haywood, C.; Wardell, D.A.; Kibugi, R.; Cordonnier-Segger, M.-C.
Policy progress with REDD+ and the promise of performance-based payments: A qualitative comparative analysis of 13 countries
Publication Year : 2015
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and enhancing forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) has emerged as a…
Authors: Brockhaus, M.; Korhonen-Kurki, K.; Sehring, J.; Di Gregorio, M.
Legal frameworks enabling sustainable land-use investment in Mozambique: Current strengths and opportunities for improvement
Publication Year : 2015
The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) assessed the legal frameworks that govern…
Authors: Chiziane, E.; Gift, R.; Kibugi, R.; Wardell, D.A.; Cordonnier-Segger, M.-C.; Haywood, C.
Futures of tropical production forests
Publication Year : 2015
Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sectoral,…
Authors: Putz, F.E.; Romero, C.
The context of REDD+ in Tanzania: Drivers, agents and institutions
Publication Year : 2015
Since 2009, CIFOR has implemented the policy component of the Global Comparative Study of REDD+ in fourteen countries: Bolivia, Brazil,…
Authors: Kweka, D.; Carmenta, R.; Hyle, M.; Mustalahti, I.; Dokken, T.; Brockhaus, M.