Development

By Peter Holmgren, Director General Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), orginally posted at DG’s blog Few people in development and environment circles could have missed that this year will see a confluence of global agreement-making. Following a 43-year process from Stockholm 1972, through Rio 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012, the post-2015 development agenda is maturing and will be the highlight at the UN […]

  By Madjiguene Seck, Communications Officer at the World Bank The global partnership TerrAfrica has brought together key actors across sectors, borders and faiths to address degradation of the land and build greener landscapes in Africa. For the past decade, it has mobilized $3 billion in investments in sustainable land and water management, working with 24 African countries […]

This study assesses the impact of artisanal gold mining in the Ngoyla-Mintom Forest Massif (NMFM) on local livelihoods and the environment. (Working paper, 54 pages)

This paper analyses the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural impacts of oil palm development in the Prafi Plain of Manokwari District in West Papua Province. The research found benefits such as infrastructure development, higher incomes for local stakeholders and negative consequences from conflicts between immigrant workers and the local population. (Working Paper, 30 pages)

By Ellysar Baroudy, originally posted at World Bank With all eyes on a new climate agreement in Paris later this year, healthy forests and landscapes are seen as critical to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero before 2100. The key underlying question is how to best achieve a true transformation in how we manage […]

In the present book the authors – a biologist and an agricultural economist- describe a global and complex tropical sector, for which the interests of the many different stakeholders are often antagonistic. (Book, 69 pages)