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Louis Putzel, Senior Scientist for CIFOR’s Forest and Environment program, speaks about the importance of Chinese domestic and international forest policy for the UNFCCC climate negotiations at COP20 in Lima, Peru.  In this two-part interview, Putzel explains how China’s own forest conservation measures have led to increasing imports of tropical timber, including from Peru. As […]

This blog by Joan Baxter was originally published at Forests News To the agro-food industry and smallholder farmers in the tropics, it’s a veritable miracle plant. To many NGOs and indigenous groups, it’s a grave threat to land rights and to the environment. So which is it? How can a single plant — the oil […]

By Michelle Kovacevic, originally published at Forests Climate Change Madre de Dios, a region of Peru best known for its gold fever, is not the only place in the country where a piece of land can be classified as a mining concession and farmer’s field at the same time. Millions of hectares of land in Peru are […]

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It is a question of putting life into something. Giving agriculture an honourable image, a proud image, something to be proud of, something that you can go to sleep thinking that you have done something good. Kamal Melvani It is difficult not be enchanted by Kamal Melvani’s positive energy. When she says “it is possible”, looking […]

By Deepak Dhyani of the Society for Conserving Planet and Life, India This blog won the blog competition, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) organized for its World Congress in October 2014 Hundreds of millions of poor people around the world depend directly or indirectly on forests for their livelihoods and subsistence. There is huge […]

By Zhang Yan, watershed program coordinator at IUCN China, and Aaron Reuben, communications officer at IUCN Originally posted on China Dialogue The time may have come for a new approach to restoring degraded lands in China. The country has many more trees than it did 40 years ago – several million hectares of forest cover have […]

Announcement originally published at COP20Lima COP20 in Lima this December is the foremost and final opportunity for global nations to draft a universal agreement on climate change before a definitive commitment is reached in Paris in 2015. As Organizer of the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2014, Climate Action, in partnership with Peru2021, UNFCCC and Ministerio del Ambiente Peru is hosting a […]