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Preventing partnerships: Timber companies & indigenous groups grapple over land
Scientists have been sifting through stacks of case studies trying to understand why — despite all good intentions — some partnerships between indigenous groups and private timber companies in Indonesia fail, while others...
Paying farmers to protect forest watersheds in Vietnam & China: The long-term prognosis
As China and Vietnam move toward decentralised, market-baed economies, they will need to improve the cost-effectiveness of ambitious programmes offering cash rewards to farmers who help protect forests, watersheds and other...
Researchers warn of more wild fires as Peruvians migrate to the big city
Wild fires in the western Amazon are being exacerbated by a population shift: As farmers move from rural areas to cities, they leave behind uncultivated landscapes that are drier and more susceptible to runaway blazes, a new case...
Is financing sustainable forest management an inappropriate use of public funding?
The long-running debate about how best to conserve forests and improve livelihoods in forest-rich tropical countries has resurfaced in a very recent (and yet to be officially released) report by the World Bank Independent...
Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach to the ‘people in parks’ problem in Indonesia?
It’s a unique solution to a problem that is plaguing national parks all over Indonesia: instead of trying to evict local communities, who have long lived within the boundaries of these protected areas, carve out an “eco-village,”...
