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Children living in areas of Africa with heavy tree cover tend to have more nutritious diets, adding credence to research showing that forests play a key role in food security, according to a new paper published in Global Environmental Change. Boosting production of such energy-rich crops as rice, maize and wheat is often seen as […]

At the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw, CCAFS’ West Africa Program Director Robert Zougmore spoke about the good, the bad and the ugly of climate change impacts on Africa. After the climate talks ended without conclusion on a possible work program for agriculture, Robert reflects on pressing adaptation needs in West Africa. He shows how […]

CIFOR Scientist Amy Duchelle talked about the challenges of complexity and climate science yo a group of 200 young land use researchers and practitioners at the Global Landscapes Forum. This story was first published on Forests Climate Change. Scientific discoveries of recent decades have generated a wealth of knowledge on forests and climate change that […]

LIMA, Peru (16 January 2014) — Left to itself, the Amazon forest is too damp to burn, but two severe fire seasons — one in 2005 and another just five years later, in 2010 – show how drought and human actions combined to wreak havoc on forests that scientists once considered virtually fireproof. Originally published […]

The European Research Council has awarded a highly competitive Consolidator Grant to Steffen Fritz, leader and creator of IIASA’s citizen science project, Geo-Wiki. The €1.4 million grant will build upon work conducted as part of IIASA’s Geo-Wiki project, an interactive online project which involves citizen scientists in global land cover research. It will take the […]