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By Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante (IFC). Originally published by The World Bank’s Development in a Changing Climate blog.  Today, over 80 million tons of CO2 will be emitted from economies around the world. Tomorrow will be the same, as will the day after that. The emitted amounts of CO2 will likely stay in the atmosphere for hundreds, if […]

By Tony Bartlett (ACIAR). Originally published by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. For the past eight years, ACIAR has been conducting research into the development of teak-based agroforestry systems in northern Laos. While agroforestry research is inherently a long term proposition, it is becoming evident that this ACIAR research in Laos is already generating […]

Brett Anthony Bryan, CSIRO Australia’s agricultural lands help to feed about 60 million people worldwide, and also support tens of thousands of farmers as well as rural communities and industries. But a growing global population with a growing appetite is placing increasing demands on our agricultural land. At the same time, the climate is warming […]

By Mafalda Duarte. Originally published by The World Bank’s Development in a Changing Climate Blog as Empowering a greener future. This is Morocco’s Noor 1 concentrated solar power plant, the first phase of what will eventually be the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. It is an impressive sight—visible even from space–and it […]

By Alison Hoare and Eleanor Glover. Originally published by Chatham House. Small- and medium-sized forestry enterprises (SMFEs) make up a large proportion of the forest sector, accounting for over half the timber production and supporting hundreds of thousands of livelihoods in developing countries − over 50 per cent of the forest sector workforce. But they […]

By Kate Langford. Originally published by Agroforestry World. A shift towards monoculture plantations and higher chemical use is of great concern to many in the Mekong region, particularly due to the impact this is having on food security and health. Farmers who have resisted monoculture cropping, and opted to maintain or create mixed-species agroforestry systems, […]