CIFOR

  The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) can play a key role in mapping out a research agenda “to develop a more sustainable Indonesia,” said Armida Alisjahbana, Indonesian State Minister for National Development Planning (BAPPENAS). In a speech she delivered at CIFOR’s annual meeting in Bogor, the minister explicitly referred  to landscapes as part […]

US President Barack Obama’s top science advisor will explore fresh ways to tackle energy challenges during a rigorous scientific debate, to be held at Columbia University in New York the day after the UN Climate Summit. John Holdren, a former Harvard professor and an expert on environment and technology policy, will be one of six international […]

                    Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is a passionate speaker on environmental issues and a supporter of CIFOR’s landscape approach. On September 25, Peru’s Minister of State for Environment and UNFCCC COP20 President will deliver a keynote address at the inaugural CGIAR Development Dialogues in New York. On December 6-7, his […]

What if you inherited a piece of Central American forest from your elders and were faced with a choice of farming it or leaving the trees standing to store carbon and combat climate change? What if you didn’t have to choose between these options but could choose both at the same time? Luis García Barrios, […]

By Barbara Fraser LIMA, Peru — Legislation aimed at giving Bolivia’s Indigenous communities the right to extract resources from their forests has solidified land tenure, but conflicts with long-standing forest-management practices, according to a study of the Yuracaré people. Under land and forest reforms passed in 1996, the Yuracaré, who live in the Amazon Basin […]

Nobel winner Wangari Maathai namesake forestry award deadline looms By Julie Mollins CIFOR — Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai dedicated the better part of her life to environmental conservation, planting trees and promoting equal rights for women — efforts that won her a Nobel Peace Prize “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”. Not only […]