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Can blockchain help you trace your food?

19 Apr 2023

From blockchain to AI and the internet of things, digital technologies are driving the rise of traceability in commodity supply chains.

Food for thought: how tropical tree foods can nurture both health and restoration

06 Jan 2021

A new study highlights the wide-ranging benefits of sustainably sourced tropical tree foods for your health, the planet and food producers

Village forests in an oil palm landscape: can they co-exist?

06 Jun 2019

In West Kalimantan, villagers try to combine benefits of oil palm and forest conservation

Backwards from gender equality: Oil palm’s impact on Dayak women

13 Oct 2016

Pe Ligit* has witnessed massive changes in her lifetime, as waves of migration, logging and oil palm development have transformed Indonesian Borneo.

Warning to forest destroyers: this scientist will catch you

13 Oct 2016

In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing

Call for contributions – Zero deforestation: A commitment to change

19 Sep 2016

The European Tropical Forest Research Network is interested in your work on zero deforestation commitments. What has worked, and what hasn’t?

Ideas wanted for innovative partnerships to catalyze investment in forests and sustainable land use

13 Sep 2016

Partnerships for Forests, a technical assistance and grant-making program funded by the UK government, has opened its first call for concepts.

The where and when and how of forest cover change in 5 infographics

31 Aug 2016

Today, we have more data about forests than ever before, but we still can’t seem to agree on where, when and why forests are changing around the world.

The limits to growth…of oil palm

25 Aug 2016

Land used for palm oil production could be nearly doubled without expanding into protected or high-biodiversity forests, according to a new study.

Landscape diversity determines what’s on the menu for kids in Indonesia

10 Aug 2016

In Indonesia, getting kids to eat healthy foods is a vital step toward overcoming problems of stunting and child mortality.

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