Thinking beyond the canopy 
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Experience spanning continents: Phosiso Sola joins CIFOR to lead programs in east and southern Africa
While Phosiso Sola was working in Zambia, her car broke down in Kafue national park, so she and her colleagues had to walk 58km to safety on foot, lighting occasional bonfires on the road to ward off animals, but eventually a...
REDD+ opens up new opportunities for forest product management in the Amazon
The emergence of subnational REDD+ projects in southwestern Amazonia is showing potential for multiple-use management of non-timber forest products, particularly Brazil nuts, and forest carbon.
Massive plans for oil and road development may threaten Peruvian Amazon
Oil exploration and the planned construction of hydroelectric dams in the Peruvian Amazon may pose serious threats to biodiversity and indigenous tribes, some of whom have been living for centuries in voluntary isolation, a...
REDD+ within reach in rural Brazil
Agricultural reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon have often been associated with high deforestation rates, thus they seem as a natural target for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation...
Forest communities tied up in state red tape
Despite a multitude of land tenure reforms over the past 20 years opening legal channels for communities to gain rights to their forests, the fair sharing of forest management responsibilities between local people and...
