CIFOR

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 […]

This presentation by Steven Lawry from CIFOR, was given at the ‘Regional Forum on Developing and Financing LEDS for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Sector: Moving from Promise to Practice’ in Bangkok, Julz 7-9, 2015. The changing architecture of forest governance and investment in sustainable landscapes from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Laura Dattaro. Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on the farm. A new study documents the results of just such a search, undertaken across the globe, to count the number of tree species found in […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News By Barbara Fraser Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has found. But any new government policy to combat the problem may be undermined by lack of coordination and communication, says one of the […]