Tag: timber

Conservationist Paul Gacheru shares how farmers and families are restoring the Mount Kenya foothills of his childhood to forested health.

Nudging individual behavior toward sustainability, such as through consumers buying legal wood in Cameroon, is no small change.

In Southern African, the miombo is a belt of expensive timber and African wildlife. But can it survive population growth?

A quick rundown on our planet’s ecosystems

Conservation advocate dispels myths on pulp and paper industry

1 million species at risk due to human activity

Reasons to make restoration a part of wood value chains

For the past eight years, ACIAR has been conducting research into the development of teak-based agroforestry systems in northern Laos. While agroforestry research is inherently a long term proposition, it is becoming evident that this ACIAR research in Laos is already generating benefits for farmers and that recent new research on the incorporation of broom […]

In February, I joined San Francisco-based photographer Mitchell Maher on a trip to Tanzania and Malawi. The two of us journeyed out together to make films and collect images for some ongoing projects IFPRI is involved with in the region. In Tanzania, we joined IFPRI senior research fellow Ephraim Nkonya and his German collaborators, on the massive Trans-SEC […]