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By Josh Gregory, Global Canopy Program Current methods to tackle deforestation aren’t working. The statement may be blunt but, with 6.6 million hectares of natural forest lost since 2010, it’s hard to dispute. Understanding current methods of forest protection The most common protection measure is command and control: governments restrict forest access and use by […]

Originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News blog. By James Reed I have just left the final session at the XIV World Forestry Congress, where participants discussed the challenges and opportunities of the landscape approach. These were inspiring discussions that echoed many of the themes I heard throughout the week at other sessions concerned with integrating […]

The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, convened at the Royal Society in London on 10–11 June 2015, brought together 220 experts on public and private finance, representatives from the corporate sector, senior government officials, and leading thinkers from research and civil society. The invitation-only expert symposium sought to overcome barriers to sustainable landscape investments […]

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 […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Tim Trench In Spanish the word for politics and policy is the same – ‘política’ – reminding us that policy is always political. Although in Spanish the adjective ‘pública’ can be added to distinguish the senses that English tries to maintain, it can serve us well to focus […]