Forests

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 […]

By Dr. Hans Friederich, Director General of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Bamboo and rattan bring a wealth of practical options, but countries are not tapping into the many economic-environmental benefits of these strategic forest resources. A new global initiative will address this, providing a knowledge base of practical information, tools and […]

This article originally appeared on WRI’s blog. By Rachael Petersen, Nigel Sizer, Matt Hansen, Peter Potapov and David Thau. Co-authored with Matt Hansen and Peter Potapov, remote-sensing scientists at the University of Maryland, and David Thau, a senior developer advocate at Google Earth Engine. The world’s tropical forests are in trouble, confirm new satellite-based data […]

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 […]

By Ivo Mulder, REDD+ Economics Advisor, UNEP. A growing number of producers, traders and retailers have over the past few years made zero-deforestation pledges aiming to decouple production of palm oil, soy, beef and other commodities from deforestation impacts. The financial sector, however, has largely remained absent even though it is an important stakeholder as […]