CIFOR scientists, including those in the Political Economy of Fire and Haze research project joined over 100 peatland related researchers to make a collective statement affirming the state of the knowledge of business as usual agriculture on peat. The publication was a response to some of the content profiled at the International Peatland Conference. The letter makes clear what we have learnt collectively in decades of peatland research – cautioning against claims that peatland development – as we know it, is sustainable. Due to subsidence, emissions, fires and oxidation – it is not. Read more
100s of scientists come together on the status of contemporary peatland development
