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By ELISABETH SIMELTON, originally posted on ICRAF’s Agrofrestry World blo Did you check the weather forecast for today? Did you do it on your phone? In Viet Nam, over 95% of farmers in Dien Bien and Ha Tinh provinces watch weather forecasts on TV. However, these forecasts are often only for a few days ahead and the […]

Challenges and Opportunities &  Consultation to operationalize Regional Strategy and Action Plan for Forest and Landscape Restoration in Asia-Pacific Background In 2011, the Bonn Challenge was announced with a goal to restore 150 million ha of deforested and degraded lands by 2020. This ambitious goal was reinforced during the UN Climate     Summit 2014 […]

A virtual Symposium 21-22 March 2017 Planting trees seems like sensible choice when it comes to mitigating climate change, but crucial aspects of the relationships between trees and climate have so far been overlooked in climate research, the new review Trees, forests and water: cool insights for a hot world concludes. The authors suggest that the global conversation […]

An interview with scientist Bruno Locatelli on improving the design of climate change project. By Yoly Gutierrez , originally published on Forests News. To combat climate change, one can avoid it via mitigation, or cope with it via adaptation. Even though these objectives are two sides of the same coin, their synergies and conflicts tend […]

Study shows that when policymakers take shortcuts, the likelihood for under-performance of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes is greater.

Mark W. Rosegrant, Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), held on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco.