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Shalini Dhyani, is a scientist with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – National Environmental Engineering Research Institute. The opinions expressed are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Indian government. A community-based program in India’s Himalayan region is preserving livelihoods and boosting incomes for women, youth and the […]

By Julie Mollins CIFOR — Resurrections can be a messy business, especially when they involve the restoration of fragile ecosystems lost in long-ago pond burials. The British countryside was once peppered with ponds that were buried amid post-World War Two pressures to expand arable farmland and boost food production. As luck would have it for […]

By the Global AgroEcology Alliance (GAEA) As we sat listening to the many speakers at the first Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Warsaw last year, we began to envision a future for ourselves in which we could be engaged professionally in tackling some of the complex, inter-dependent issues – those “wicked problems” – about which […]

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 […]

CIFOR — Forests got a boost this week after a U.N. advisory group proposed that global development targets should contain a provision for their protection, restoration and sustainable management. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 recommends that the global community should “protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and […]

By Suzannah Goss, UNEP The inaugural UN Environmental Assembly which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, (June 23-27) represented the coming of age of the environment as a world issue, placing environmental concerns on the same footing with peace, security and finance. UNEA delegates promote the Sustainable Development Goals through global political guidance combined with a […]

This blog was originally posted on the blog of Felix Dodds, a fellow at the Global Research Institute at University of North Carolina and an associate fellow at the Tellus Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. The opinions expressed are his own. There is, I think, complete consensus among governments and stakeholders that the two co-chairs of the Open […]

By Julie Mollins For forest scientist Gabriel Hemery the term “silvology” plugs what was once a gaping hole in the English language, offering a succinct way to describe the study of forests and woods. “No other term in the English language describes adequately this area of science,” he says. “For example, the word “dendrology” refers to the […]