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    When it comes to peatlands: in local we trust

    Thursday June 01st, 2017 Leave a comment
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    The earth is crispy around here. Crunch, crunch, crunch—my every footstep made a crackling sound like a rustling bag of potato chips. Underneath the crunchy stuff was something almost fluffy. “It is the dried peat,” Nizar told me. He’s been working in this area for decades, acrobatically transitioning between the local community, government and private […]

  • The water to our fire

    Tuesday May 30th, 2017 Leave a comment
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    “We are fighting for our land in our homeland,” explained Emmanuela Shinta as she approached the front of the stage proudly at the Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter event in Jakarta, May 18th 2017. Shinta brought along the stories from the ground all the way from the western part of Borneo, to Jakarta, the busiest […]

  • Never provoke a sleepy peatland

    Friday May 26th, 2017 Leave a comment
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    How old is old growth in Borneo? 130 million years. Almost 80 percent of the island of Borneo was covered with this old growth rainforest in 1973. Today, only 28 percent remains. Barely bigger than France, Borneo’s rainforests are packed with more rare and fascinating species than almost anywhere else in the world. However, Borneo […]

  • Too delicious to drain

    Friday May 26th, 2017 Leave a comment
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    “This is the perfect land—flat, fertile—all we need to do is drain it,” a farmer thinks upon approaching a peat forest. Draining the area turns waterlogged, carbon-rich soil into arable land, but in the process releases tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Only 15% of peatlands worldwide have been drained, but this alone is responsible […]

  • Moving past “zombie statistics” for gender-equitable tenure

    Friday January 29th, 2016
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    Pop quiz: how much land in developing countries do women own? A: Less than one per cent B: Two to five per cent C: Ten per cent D: I don’t know This was the opening question posed to the group gathered at the high session on gendered perspectives on land rights at this year’s Global […]

  • Landscape restoration could be a cash cow for finance

    Thursday January 28th, 2016
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    Each year, services provided by nature accumulate value in the trillions of dollars. Yet, many investors still tend to focus on unsustainable, short-term goals and strategies which exploits natural resources. As a consequence, the deployed financial capital often damages the environment as well as the economy. Considering the additional decline of natural resources due to […]

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