Thinking beyond the canopy
CIFOR Climate Change Adaptation News
Field visit in Virunga landscape in Rwanda: adaptation and community-based forestry around the Volcanoes National Park
In its fight against climate change, Rwanda, a country with low forest cover where most of the land is occupied, clearly gives priority to adaptation. At the foot of the Volcanoes National Park, torrential rains often cause...
Field visit in Maiko-Tayna-Kahuzi-Biega landscape in DRC: what are the obstacles to REDD+ in South Kivu?
Under what conditions can REDD+ projects enable to help people to adapt to climate change for local populations in South Kivu? This is one of the questions the COBAM project team considered during a field visit in the...
Training workshop for the design of pilot projects on adaptation and mitigation to climate change in central Africa from 16 to 20 April in Mbalmayo
The COBAM project team organised a training workshop from 16 to 20 April 2012 targeting pilot project holders on adaptation and mitigation to climate change. The main objective was to reinforce the capacity for designing local...
COBAM update shared at a PACEBCo technical launching workshop
COBAM representatives presented an update on our progress at a recent workshop in Yaoundé. From 19 to 21 September 2011, the technical launching workshop of the Congo Basin Ecosystems Conservation Support Programme (PACEBCo), was...
Baseline study in east Cameroon: how to integrate adaptation and mitigation in community forest schemes?
From the 20th of June to the 13th of July, COBAM’s team conducted a field trip around Yokadouma in the TNS landscape (Tri National de la Sangha), one of the PACEBCo landscapes. The main objective was to assess the feasibility of...
