Evidence from benchmark sites across the tropics is proving that an integrated, multifunctional approach that allows for land-use sharing in agriculture, forests and other functions can achieve good results in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and raising food production levels. It provides more...
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Environmental Research Web |
13 years 6 months ago
EuropeAid |
13 years 6 months ago
Focus Web |
13 years 6 months ago
NC Guyana |
13 years 6 months ago
Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo spent today in a series of meetings with German leaders and senior officials. Discussions centered on the need for sustained political action on climate change, and in particular on Guyana and Germany's upcoming joint chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership...
AllAfrica |
13 years 6 months ago
Rwandan forest monitoring specialists are set to undergo training in modern techniques to help them implement and improve national forest monitoring programs. The training will among other things,, equip the trainees with necessary skills to conduct field surveys, lead field campaigns and come...
Alert Net |
13 years 6 months ago
OSLO, June 21 (Reuters) - Norway and Germany announced aid of more than $90 million on Tuesday for World Bank programmes to help slow tropical deforestation that is blamed for stoking climate change. Norway, the top donor to protecting tropical forests that absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide...
Phnom Penh Post |
13 years 6 months ago
The Forestry Administration yesterday launched a new US$3.8 million project to conserve forests in four provinces in the Cardamom region through sustainable community forestry. Kampong Speu, Kampong Chhnang, Pursat and Battambang provinces have been targeted because they contain forests with “...
Enterprise Post |
13 years 6 months ago
A multifunctional approach to REDD will be far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing food production than the practice of intensifying agriculture and sparing forests
The Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 6 months ago
CIFOR |
13 years 6 months ago
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (17 June, 2011)_Financing forest conservation in Central Africa is an age-old issue of trust between the developed and developing worlds or “North and South”, said the President of Guyana, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo at the Three Tropical Forest Basin Summit (Amazon, Congo...
Manily Standard Today |
13 years 6 months ago
Kaieteur News Online |
13 years 6 months ago
Ten forested communities, among them Muritaro, Aranaputa, and Bethany, yesterday signed the support US$50,000 agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forestry Training Centre Incorporated under the National Forest...
Global Issues |
13 years 6 months ago
Only two of the eleven countries that share the Congo Basin have validated their plans to participate in the forest conservation process known as REDD+. Preparatory plans for REDD (the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation of Forests, the plus refers to the extension of...
Greenwood Management |
13 years 6 months ago
UK forestry investments have outperformed the commercial property markets for the fifth year in a row, according to the Investment Property Databank (IPD) UK Forestry Index. Rising timber prices drove returns on forestry investment last year to their highest level since 2007, at 20 per cent....
EFI |
13 years 6 months ago
The Council of the European Forest Institute has re-elected Prof.Dr. José Antonio Bonet (Spain) and Dr. Harald Mauser (Austria) to EFI Board for the period 2011-2014. In addition, the Council elected two new members to the Board: Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza (Italy) and Lisa Sennerby Forsse (...
My Sunshinecoast |
13 years 6 months ago
A CQUniversity researcher has spent the past two and half years investigating ways to reduce carbon emissions to positively impact on climate change, while reducing poverty in developing countries. PhD researcher Thakur Bhattarai has been looking into the impact of carbon trading on developing...
Reuters |
13 years 6 months ago
(Reuters) - John Paulson's roll of the dice on a lender that rose from the wreckage of the financial crisis is emerging as one of the few big winners for the hedge fund manager in what is shaping up as a downbeat year. A 2009 investment in a company that acquired assets from failed lender...
Guardian |
13 years 6 months ago
Imagine if your government suddenly passed laws that sold off the street your family had lived on for generations to an international property developer. Your land was to be "converted" into flats in the name of national economic development; bulldozers would soon be moving in to demolish your...
Nature |
13 years 6 months ago
Less than 10% of permanent tropical forests are under a sustainable management plan, according to a study by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) an intergovernmental organization based in Yokohama, Japan, whose 33 timber-producing members account for around 85% of the world's...
Nature |
13 years 6 months ago
Forests are vital to the livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries, providing on average more than one-fifth of their annual income, according to data presented today at a meeting in London. The study provides much-needed solid evidence for the importance of forests to the world...