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Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News blog as part of a Dry Forest Special blog series. Read more blogs on Dry Forests here. By Laura Dataro. Despite a decline in numbers in the last few decades, nearly 800 million people around the world still don’t have enough food to eat. About 2 billion people are […]

In London on 10 June 2015, a variety of representatives of the finance community rubbed shoulders with anthropologists, foresters, NGOs and government representatives at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case. The event was part of a growing multistakeholder movement that seeks to harness the influence of the financial sector to transform rural landscapes. As […]

This post originally appeared on CIFOR’s Director General’s blog. By Peter Holmgren, CIFOR Director General. The Indian tale about the blind men and the elephant is well known. The poet John Godfrey Saxe told it like this: It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant (Though all […]

This blog post originally appeared in the Huffington Post blog. By Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) It’s the season for bountiful corn harvests. We consume corn in so many forms — for some, it constitutes a major part of a meal; for others, it provides fuel for an […]

By Dr. Hans Friederich, Director General of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Bamboo and rattan bring a wealth of practical options, but countries are not tapping into the many economic-environmental benefits of these strategic forest resources. A new global initiative will address this, providing a knowledge base of practical information, tools and […]

This article originally appeared on WRI’s blog. By Rachael Petersen, Nigel Sizer, Matt Hansen, Peter Potapov and David Thau. Co-authored with Matt Hansen and Peter Potapov, remote-sensing scientists at the University of Maryland, and David Thau, a senior developer advocate at Google Earth Engine. The world’s tropical forests are in trouble, confirm new satellite-based data […]