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Registrations for the Global Landscapes Forum — a two-day event on the sidelines of November’s U.N. Climate Change conference in Warsaw — are filling fast, so register now.
Keynote speaker Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, will be joined by other high-level speakers and panelists to discuss how the world can find combined solutions for climate-change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable resource use, poverty eradication, food security and a growing need for energy.
We’re also pleased to announce Warsaw University as the host organization and Poland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment as official partners.
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 A recent literature review revealed that most gender and forestry research is occurring in South Asia, primarily due to the pioneering work of Indian development economist, Bina Agarwal. In this POLEX, CIFOR postdoctoral fellow Bimbika Sijapati Basnett discusses how a recent study extends Agarwal’s analysis to Africa and Latin America – and challenges some long-held assumptions about how women participate in forest governance.
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 Strengthening the capacity of the Central African Republic to adapt to climate change could help build peace in the landlocked country, which has been hampered by political instability and civil conflict since it achieved independence from France in 1960, a new CIFOR study suggests.
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 A large-scale study has found that a handful of big trees store up to half the above-ground biomass in tropical forests, raising implications for forest management and climate change mitigation. “Only 3 percent of the forests are made up of big trees, but these trees store up to half the biomass,” said Ferry Slik, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “If just a few of these large trees die, it immediately has a major impact.”
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 Smallholder farmers in the Amazon sell timber from trees that have grown on fallow fields to improve income, but such production can go unrecognized in official statistics — often because it is commercialized through informal channels, according to new research.
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 Mechanisms for sharing the benefits from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) projects must be well-designed or they could create problems in the long term, CIFOR researchers find in a new global comparative study. They found two of the most serious issues are unclear tenure and land rights, and under-representation of local people —problems that tend to arise from the political setting and the design of institutions.
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 Observing how honey-gathering skills are passed from one generation to another, and how such skills are retained, a new CIFOR study is providing important insight into the way people acquire and deploy different types of social knowledge at different ages.
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Future Directions of Small-scale and Community-based Forestry
8 - 12 September 2013, Centennial Hall, Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan. More information »
IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition
15 - 20 September 2013, Granada Congress Centre, Granada, Spain. More information »
12th meeting of the European Tropical Forestry Advisors (ETFAG) Group
16 - 18 September 2013, Forestry Training Centre, Lyss, Canton Bern, Switzerland. More information »
The 11th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
16 - 27 September 2013, Windhoek Country Club Resort, Windhoek, Republic of Namibia. More information »
EFI 20 Years: Our forests in the 21st century – ready for risks and opportunities?
23 - 27 September 2013, Nancy, France. More information »
Science Forum 2013, “Nutrition and health outcomes: Targets for agricultural research”
23 - 25 September 2013, Bonn, Germany. More information »
First International Conference on Global Food Security
29 September - 2 October 2013, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. More information »
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CIFOR advances human well-being, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to help shape policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. Our headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, with offices in Asia, Africa and South America.
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