Forests

Until today, the topic of shifting cultivation is highly controversial, judged as a threat to landscapes. Nevertheless it remains important to indigenous peoples for securing their livelihoods and food sources. At the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, the civil society organization Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) will take a closer look at this topic by hosting […]

By Peter Holmgren, originally posted at the CIFOR Director General’s blog As REDD+ has evolved and expanded, numerous opportunities, synergies and challenges have emerged, particularly with respect to tenure and financing. CIFOR’s ongoing Global Comparative Study on REDD+ offers lessons for achieving the transformational change necessary to make the framework succeed. These are issues that transcend the […]

Originally posted at Bioversity International The European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN) turns 20. In celebrating this important milestone, the programme has launched a short film that reflects on some achievements and explains why continued regional collaboration on forest genetic resources is needed. “The recent achievements of EUFORGEN, notably the EUFGIS Portal and the pan-European […]

  By Mark Foss, originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News It’s time to get serious about the social dimensions of REDD+ projects, say the authors of a new study. The paper, published recently in the journal Forests, surveys the evolution of multi-level policy frameworks to develop “social safeguards” for REDD+ — an international policy mechanism to offer incentives for developing […]

T20Q, a project run by the Evidence-Based Forestry initiative, is calling for people around the world to cast their votes in the project’s second phase, launched on 14 November. The project aims to identify 20 key research and policy questions for forestry and landscapes, as written and selected by the general public, with the goal of […]