Co-Benefits of Sustainable Forest Management in Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequestration
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Financing sustainable small-scale forestry
Policy issues and lessons from developing national forest financing strategies in Latin America
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia
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Mexican foresters invoke less destructive loggingNOH-BEC, Mexico, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Community leaders managing a fragment of ancient Mexican jungle say their approach to logging precious hardwoods protects rare jaguar and may guide nearby U.N. climate talks seeking a forest blueprint.
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SATIIM: Adaption to Climate Change through Community-based Sustainable Forest Management
On Monday December 6, 2010, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) with funding from the Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund, which supports the Development Marketplace 2009 Global Competition, launched a project in Toledo entitled “ Building Q'eqchi' Maya Capacity, Flexibility, and Adaption to Climate Change through Community-based Sustainable Forest Management" in Belize.
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Cuts to forest service are too deepThere are many things that distinguish "supernatural" British Columbia from other jurisdictions. But one of the most enduring of them is its abundance of publicly owned lands.
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Ideological Foes Assail UN Forest Scheme from Two SidesCANCUN, MEXICO -- The prospect of a deal on forest protection at the Cancun climate talks has galvanized pressure groups at either end of the ideological axis to take common aim at keeping the UN out of the rainforests.
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British Columbia releases third State of the Forests ReportThe most intensive and thorough report ever produced on the state of British Columbia‘s forests suggests sound laws and policies, including public reporting by an independent Forest Practices Board, are supporting sustainable forest management in British Columbia, Forests, Mi
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ECO2 Forests planting in EuropeBOULDER - Sustainable forestry company ECO2 Forests Inc. has plans for two joint-venture projects in Europe - one in Turkey, the other in Bulgaria.
ECO2 Forests (Pinksheets: ECOF), with offices in Boulder and Queensland, Australia, signed an agreement with ECO PLUS Limited to grow a 1,200-acre forest in Izmir, Turkey, the company said in a press statement.
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Challenges of Climate Change in the Mountains HighlightedExperts from leading institutions and government organisations working in the field of climate change in the Himalayan region called attention to mountain issues and challenges in the light of climate change.
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Lessons learnt from FLEGT for REDD draft SummaryDestruction of forests is a significant contributor to climate change. Preserving forests helps mitigate global warming. These two facts explain why halting deforestation is a central part of much of the current negotiations on climate change, with an international binding forest climate agreement, or REDD+, forming a key part of discussions. Yet, such an agreement, even if well-designed, cannot by itself save the forests. Without reducing greenhouse gas emissions by between 85 and 95 percent by 2050, many forests, along with many other ecosystems, will be lost.
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Saving Forests with a Sense of PlaceI was in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca during one of Mexico’s best-known traditions, the Day of the Dead.
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Advancing equity in community forestry: recognition of the poor mattersThe community forestry program in Nepal has been advancing as a successful means of improving the condition of forests. However, as in other areas around the world, Nepal’s community forestry initiative continues to face unresolved equity issues. This paper seeks to explore underlying causes of inequity using contemporary theories of justice. Examining two community forest user groups in the middle hill districts, the study finds that lack of recognition in interpersonal and public spheres exacerbated the powerlessness of marginalized people, reducing their participation in decision-making. The paper argues that, while distributional rules advanced by the program are crucial, the problem of recognition remains an unaddressed but necessary pre-condition for advancing equity. This suggests that policy and practice in community forestry needs to focus on broader political questions, including representation in decision making, making space for the voice of members to influence decisions, and transforming socio-economic and political institutions and cultural practices.
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The Eucalyptus Crop and its BenefitsIn the past, agriculture was used exclusively to produce food, but now we are turning to crops as a source for energy use. Nowadays everyone is familiar with the argument s relating to the environment and how the energy we use directly affects are surroundings.
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Sustainability Impact Assessments for EuropeThe new EFI brochure introduces the Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessments (ToSIA). This new decision-support software tool will assist policy makers, business planners and other stakeholders to make informed decisions on issues related to the use of forest resources and wood products.
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WWF’s announcement misleads users regarding true facts about sustainable forestry and print
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Certification fails to protect B.C. forests
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21 state forests earn top statusCOLUMBUS — Ohio’s 21 state forests are managed well enough to join an elite group of public forest lands that are certified as sustainable, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said Thursday.
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Forests for food security and livelihood sustainability: Policy problems and opportunities for small farmers in Nepal
Title: Forests for food security and livelihood sustainability: Policy problems and opportunities for small farmers in Nepal
Authors: Bhubaneswor Dhakal
Source: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 35(1):86-115
Abstract:
This study used a novel empirical model of common property to examine problems of forest policy on food security and livelihoods in Nepal. At the opening section, the paper well described agro-ecological rationalities for maintaining some forest areas in each mountain communities. Then it reviewed progression of forest policies that constrained use of resources and services from local forests, and escalated starvations and miseries in disadvantaged communities. The paper nicely articulated progression of forest policies and marginalization of poor people and disadvantaged communities. It has modeled impacts of current and alternative policies of community forestry for rural food security and livelihoods. The intention for introduction of the Nepalese forest policies and their consequences can be a heart breaking for some readers.
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Canadian Forest Industry Prepares For New Opportunities; Celebrates International Year of Forests
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Environment Ministry implementing mega forestry projects: AfridiISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi said on Saturday that the Ministry of Environment was implementing mega forestry projects in all the provinces for preservation and expansion of forest wealth in the country.
He stated this at the concluding ceremony of the 2nd three-day international conference on “Biodiversity is Our Life”, organised by the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) and Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur.
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Nigeria: Deforestation - Cutting Down Our LivesClimate change is no longer an abstract term or a scientific jargon with no local, humane touch.
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Biodiversity conservation: 'beyond business' CSRThis year was the International year of Biodiversity. Next year has been declared the year of forests.
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Sustainable Forest Management for Poverty Reduction Through Agroforestry OptionsIn Bangladesh, the massive growth rate of population has intensified pressure on forest resources throughout the country. The forest coverage of Bangladesh is one of the lowest and the deforestation rate is the highest of any country in the world.
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Forest Department seeks local wisdomBHUBANESWAR: Its jungles as well as protection staff under increasing attack, Forest Department of the State is all set to add local wisdom and intelligence to its protection measures this new year.
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Devising state-level climate change responses
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Patrick Bond: Climate change THE recent Cancun climate- change agreements’ fatal flaw is simple: faith in fickle markets.
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Many trees are private goods. If you own some, you can probably do whatever you want with them. As a rational economic actor, you can respond effectively to incentives.
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Forests or famine the choice for Papua New Guineans, says economist
An Australian academic says feeding themselves will become very difficult for the majority of Papua New Guineans if more forests aren’t cleared for farmland.
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Alberta sees signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetlesAlberta is seeing signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetles, thanks to:
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U.S. considering a levy on each Christmas tree sold, including those imported from CanadaThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering placing a levy on each Christmas trees sold in the United States, whether they were grown in the U.S. or whether they were imported.
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Mexico, the Leader in Community Forest ManagementMEXICO CITY, Jan 5, 2011 (IPS) - Thanks to its experience with community forestry projects, Mexico can provide tips on how to manage forests while fomenting the development of local economies in 2011, the International Year of Forests.
Every year, some 13 million hectares of forests are lost worldwide, and deforestation is responsible for 20 percent of total emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Johann Hari: For sale - Cameron's green credentialsCan you hear the silence of the huskies? When he was rebranding the Tory party, David Cameron promised us he would lead "the greenest government ever". Since he came to power, he has broken every environmental promise he made – and then gone much further.
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Asian Development Bank grants $69m for forest protection projectMANILA — The Asian Development Bank last week approved loans and grants worth US$69 million to Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam for a community-based initiative to protect more than 1.9 million ha of threatened forests where 170,000 mostly poor people live.
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After Cancun: We’re all foresters nowThe mild success of Cancun provided a great advance for the world’s foresters: global attention. But with this attention comes responsibility.
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California Air Resources Board Grants Forest Clearcutters a Free CO2 PassAB32 - Charged with implementing the provisions of A.B.
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Institutions should facilitate local forest monitoringFor many policy analysts and scholars, turning forest management over to governments, particularly as protected areas, is one way to preserve forests.
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Cut a Forest and Put a Man on the MoonYesterday a Ugandan man and I were planning an environmental education training for teachers. He was lamenting the poor state of the environment in Uganda and said that he wished Ugandans had the same sense of responsibility towards the environment that Americans have. He said “why can’
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ISESCO to help REDD training programmes: Afridi
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Good policies a must for commercial use of forestsThe United Nation (UN) has declared 2011 as the international year of forests although more than a billion forest-dependent poor will probably not see it that way. Spiraling global demand for food, energy, fibre and water spell trouble for these people’s forests.
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YoF 2011: COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP ON FORESTSEduardo Rojas-Briales is Assistant-Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. Previously, he was Vice-Dean of the Agronomy and Forest Faculty of the Polytechnical University of Valencia.
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Neither forests nor trees The current political disarray is resulting in calamitous deforestation across the country, and threatens to roll back Nepal's internationally acclaimed community forestry success story.
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Protect The Commons: Conference of the International Association for the Study of the CommonsThe 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2011 held in the heritage city of Hyderabad from the 10-14th January 2011 was an eye opener with regard to the critical role that the commons such as fo
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Are environmental campaigns misleading the public?RISI, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, Dez.
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Poor B.C. logging practices 'add to gas emissions'Massive emissions of greenhouse gases are coming from B.C.'s coastal forests because of poor logging practices and inadequate management, according to a new report by environmentalists.
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Netherlands debates recognition of MTCS
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Climate Change Committee to discuss sustainable forestry and carbon off-settingMinister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with special responsibility for Fisheries and Forestry Sean Connick, TD, will discuss sustainable forestry and forest carbon sequestration with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security t
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Project Plan for Building Capacity in Sustainable Forest Management Planning SignedDamascus – Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform and the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry signed on Wednesday the project plan for building capacity in sustainable forest management planning.
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Munsee Delaware Nation secures funding for accredited forestry program
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Natura 2000 network further expanded - a good day for salmon, otters and beech forests
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Global Pulp & Paper Leader Announces New Research and Development Initiatives
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Tanzania to create forest inventory to help fight climate change
DAR ES SALAAM (AlertNet) – Tanzania plans to draw up a comprehensive inventory of its forests to replace outdated statistics and help the east African country to conserve woodland, preserve livelihoods and curb climate change.
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Forestry companies and environmental groups propose solutions to Ontario government
The province of Ontario is proposing to protect woodland caribou habitat and protect economic growth in Northern Ontario.
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Defra Forestry Plans Revealed
The UK governement has unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Forestry Commission, proposing to lease woodland to private sector operators and hand over control of England´s heritage forests to charitable trusts.
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Agricultural revenues, employment in Latin American tropical areas likely to decline with deforestation ban
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Forests Are More than Sinks that Inhale Carbon, Study Warns
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Sustainable Forest Management and Carbon in Tropical Latin America: The Case for REDD+
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Suriname rep at UN: REDD+ program should complement sustainable forest management
NEW YORK/PARAMARIBO--Raymond Landveld, the Counselor at Suriname’s Permanent Mission to the UN, discussing the progress made by the United Nations Forum on Forests, has said that perhaps the most important outcome of the deliberations thus far had been that delegations felt the REDD+ program should not be a substitute for sustainable forest management, but should instead complement it.
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EU presses for sustainable forest management
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Climate Conversations - Protecting forests key to livelihoods, tackling climate change
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Government of Canada Investing in Sustainable Forest Management Research in Quebec's Eastern Townships
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ASEAN Focuses on Socioeconomic Aspects of Sustainable Forest Management
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Supporting small forest enterprises
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International Year of Forests launched
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''Al Jazeera'' reports on Latvia's rapid deforestation
he London based Qatari news channel ''Al Jazeera English'' has aired an investigative report on Latvia's rapid deforestation, blaming state-owned joint-stock company Latvijas Valsts mezi (Latvian State Forests, LVM) on cutting down the country's forests.
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Join the Canadian Institute of Forestry
The Canadian Institute of Forestry has launched a membership drive to reach out to potential new members.
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Government's forestry plans threaten to fell biomass ambitions
As with many environmentalists, the protests against the government's plans to sell off the bulk of the UK's forest estate have struck something of a nerve with me.
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'Major shift' needed to halt deforestation
A paradigm shift in global forest management is needed to halt tropical deforestation, said Global Witness at the start of the UN’s International Year of Forests. The status quo effectively legalises the destruction of natural forests by logging operations, subsidised by tax-dollars. Without efforts to overturn this, international action to prevent irreversible climate change will founder and the livelihoods of over a billion forest-dependent people will be at risk.
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Government 'failing on illegal logging pledge' - Caroline Lucas
A note from the editor: Ms. Lucas is still continuing her misleading campaign... Why? Read here...
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UN report lauds India for adding 300,000 hectares of forest every year
Asia is leading afforestation activity in the world with a significant contribution from India which is adding 300,000 hectares of forest every year, a senior UN official said. "I would highlight India, which still has important population growth. The forests in India are growing at 300,000
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Renewable energy could power the world by 2050, says WWF report
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All of the world’s energy needs could be provided cleanly, sustainably and economically by 2050, according to a major, two-year study by the WWF.
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Inadequate reforestation goes from bad to worseBritish Columbia is blessed by nature with a vast, ecologically rich forest estate that also has been a source of sustained economic wealth for more than a century. But today there are troubling signs that the most important of natural assets is facing challenges never before seen.
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National Trust moves to save Forestry Commission woodlands
The National Trust could step in to save the Forestry Commission's English forests, which the Government wants to sell off.
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International Year of Forests: Reason to be optimisti
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Save the Yunnan golden monkey through community outreach
Project Summary
The Laojunshan Nature Reserve (LNR), located in the northwest of China’s Yunnan Province, is in the Three Parallel Rivers Region, which was named a World Heritage site in July 2003. Comprising four counties (Yulong, Jiangchuan, Weixi, and Lanping), each with different land management laws, the LNR faces myriad and complicated management issues. From June 2003 to March 2005, Rare partnered with The Nature Conservancy to support campaign manager Angela Cun to run a Pride campaign in the LNR.
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Fiji works on Sustainable Forest Management
With financial and technical support from our regional and international development partners, Fiji has continued to further the implementation of Sustainable Forest Management.
In 2007, the Government passed a new forest policy that has sustainable forest management as its foundation.
In 2008, Fiji started the process of revising our forest laws to implement the new direction under the new forest policy.
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Forestry sector pushes plan, not ban
The forestry sector said the government should implement plans on the classification of the country’s forests and on the adoption of watershed and ecosystem as well as conduct multi-sectoral community approaches to promote holistic and sustainable forestry activities.
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Morocco calls for promoting sustainable forest management in Africa
Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mohamed Loulichki stressed the need for taking measures to promote sustainable forest management in Africa through setting up a global funding mechanism.
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Last weekend (4.2.2011/5.2.2011) we had been witnesses of some interesting information campaign in the UK:
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The Nature Conservancy purchases property
The Nature Conservancy in Missouri announced last week it purchased 175 acres near Hartshorn, including nearly 1.5 miles of land along the Current River - the largest stretch of private frontage remaining in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
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Putting a positive spin on forests
Since Rio, the focus on forests has been overwhelmingly negative: unacceptable rates of deforestation, biodiversity loss, and desertification when, in fact, there are much better stories to tell about forests.
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Stewart Maginnis on Poverty and Forest Restoration
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Forests to be a hot topic in 2011
Why is the International year of the Forests so important right now?
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Ms. Bulkan has emerged again from her cocoon
I wish to refer to a letter in the Stabroek News under the caption “Almost nine per cent of Guyana’s budget this year hangs on the POYRY - Guyana Forestry Commission Report” in its issue of Thursday February 3, 2011.
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No Correlation Between Democracy and Forest Governance
All markets differ from region to region. Soybean meal from Brazil, for example, has a higher protein content than does soybean meal from the United States, which makes it especially popular in China. But the two products resemble each other enough that a Chinese buyer will grudgingly accept the latter in lieu of the former – albeit at an agreed upon discount.
That's one of the things that makes soybean meal a commodity', and its status as a commodity is one of the things that makes it so easy to trade.
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UNDP Administrator Emphasizes Safeguards for REDD+ at the launch of Forests 2011
In her address at the Ministerial Dialogue with the Heads of the member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, on the occasion of the 9th United Nations Forum on Forests, Administrator Helen Clark emphasized UNDP’s commitment to REDD+ safeguards.
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Common Property Forest Management: Implications for REDD in Ethiopia
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No Regrets: Maintaining Forests for Adaptation and Mitigation
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The future of forestry in England
The consultation on the future management of the Public Forest Estate has been halted and all forestry clauses in the Public Bodies Bill will be removed, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman confirmed today.
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Defra commits £100 million international forestry funding up to 2015
The Government has today committed £100 million to international forestry projects which provide specific benefits for biodiversity.
The money comes from the new international climate finance included in the Comprehensive Spending Review, which will include new money for the UK’s contribution to REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), a programme which aims to prevent the loss of forests in developing countries.
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Nigerian State Sets REDD Pace for Entire Continent
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US Timber REITs has returned 24.10% year to date
Timber REIT (FTR) Index of public timber REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)
has returned 24.10% year-to-date compared with 5.69% for the S&P 500 (as of February 11, 2011) reports Forisk consulting at their blog.
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Central America Has Highest Rate of Forest Loss in Region
FAO's State of the World’s Forests report says the average rate of loss of forest cover in Central America, which is made up of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala City, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, was 1.19 percent a year between 2000 and 2010, compared to a global rate of just 0.13 percent.
The region's forested area shrank from 21.9 million hectares in 2000 to 19.4 million hectares in 2010.
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The Context of REDD+ in Cameroon
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Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America
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Rwanda Launches Plan to Reverse Environmental Degradation
Rwanda, the most densely populated nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched a national plan to reverse the current degradation of soil, land, water and forest resources by 2035 while boosting economic development growth.
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What wood you do to stop this?
The government's announcement that it is postponing the sale of 15 per cent of the Forestry Commission estate, in order to review the site-by-site criteria for disposal is a first victory in the massive grass-roots anti-privatisation campaign.
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UK pledges support for Nigeria’s environmental programmes
The British government will support Nigeria’s effort to manage her environment through reduction of carbon emission, Henry Bellingham, British minister for Africa and the United Nations, said yesterday in Abuja.
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