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Acacia tree being planted in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR

Dispelling the top seven tree planting misconceptions

Scientists will speak at a forum on the right and wrong ways to implement tree planting to benefit communities and the environment.

 
Un miembro de la comunidad indígena Nueva Ahuaypa (Perú) junto a un árbol de su parcela, la cual sigue el modelo agroforestal. Juan Carlos Huayllabamba, CIFOR

Why global food systems should resemble those of the Indigenous Peoples

Lessons for more resilient and sustainable food systems

 
A journey through the Russian Arctic, where David Quammen traveled in 2013 to report for National Geographic. Christopher Michel, Flickr

“I tell the story of the heroic and suspenseful work that goes into the doing of science.”

Journalist and award-winning author David Quammen on his career of writing to change human perspective on the natural world.

 
Courtesy of Crop Trust

How to feed a growing global population in the midst of a climate crisis

Leading experts say the answer lies in two places: genetic diversity and agroecology.

 
Sichuan's Jiuzhaigou nature reserve, a landscape of connected valleys in southwest China. Roman Korzh, Flickr

Increasing protected areas could yield USD 250 billion in economic output

A new report finds that economic benefits of expanding protected areas to cover 30% of the planet's lands and oceans outweigh the costs 5-to-1.

 

‘Let the forest come back’

"throw your seeds in all directions / lignify your skin till the armour of the bark shade this land protect the young / let the forest come back."

 
Ghana is one of the world's most important cocoa producers. Ahtziri Gonzalez, CIFOR

Are chocolates forever?

Looking at the future of cocoa in the contexts of biodiversity conservation and globalization in the ancient Asante Kingdom of Ghana.

 
Kenya mountains

Kenya’s mountain treasures

A growing number of people are turning to Kirinyaga’s precolonial past to save the mountain’s vital forests from an uncertain future.

 
Women in a cooperative in Yoko, Cameroon support one another in improving crop yields to sell in local markets. UN Women

Five ways gender equity can help save the planet

From seed-planting to peace-building, achieving gender equity is proving increasingly necessary to a sustainable planetary future.

 
A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family's animals. Stevie Mann, ILRI

An awakening for the world’s rangelands

Pastoralists and their ancestral lands are showing their environmental, cultural and economic value for the global future.

 

Read Minister Lina Pohl’s address to the United Nations at adoption of new Decade

The Minister was a driving force behind the Decade

 
Robert Nasi

A global perspective on forests: CIFOR DG Robert Nasi chats with SAN

Future landscapes

 
Canal in peatlands

Aspiring for greater heights in land-use

Feeling the crunch

 

Cecile Ndjebet mobilizes mangrove restoration project on Cameroon coast

IWD Landscape Laurel in focus

 

Global Landscapes Forum seeks to become both a platform and a movement

“This is not a closing ceremony, but an opening ceremony of new GLF movement,” said Robert Nasi, Director General of the Center for the International Forestry Research (CIFOR), at the close of the Global Landscapes Forum. Held in Bonn, Germany, the two-day forum marked the seventh installation of the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable […]

 

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