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A word from CIFOR’s incoming Director General By Leona Liu originally published on Forests News From 1 November 2017, Dr. Robert Nasi is taking on the role of Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Dr. Nasi is no newcomer to CIFOR, having been with the Center for more than 20 years, holding a variety of research […]

Originally posted on EUFORGEN Picture, in your mind’s eye, Iceland. You’re more likely to see ice and rock than green forests, and while you might think that the cold and lack of forests are connected, actually it is past land use, rather than climate, that made Iceland treeless. In the 9th century when the first […]

Register now! Date: November 8, 2017 Time: 2PM Rome time (8PM Jakarta – 8AM New York/Lima) (Use this tool to convert to your local time zone) Peatland conservation is a hot topic on international environmental agendas recently, from the launch of Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency to the initiation of the Global Peatlands Initiative. Yet peatland ecosystems have been […]

Measuring “performance” in the private sector seems easy: reduce cost and increase profit. We face more challenges in the development sector, or in the wider non-profit world. How do we measure the performance of a development organisation/project? Most will say: “Easy… By measuring our impact”. Then, the question is “how do we measure our impact”? […]

Measuring “performance” in the private sector seems easy: reduce cost and increase profit. We face more challenges in the development sector, or in the wider non-profit world. How do we measure the performance of a development organisation/project? Most will say: “Easy… By measuring our impact”. Then, the question is “how do we measure our impact”? […]

Forest and land fires, which occur on an annual basis in Indonesia, affect the entire Southeast Asian region. Such man-made disasters are detrimental to the environment and have irreversible long-term impacts on human health, undermining progress towards achieving almost all Sustainable Development Goals. Indonesia’s forest and peatland fires are estimated to cause approximately 110,000 premature […]