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▪ Does palm oil expansion = mass deforestation?
▪ 4 billion saplings no substitute for Ethiopia’s dry forests
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The Congo Basin: Palm oil’s next frontier
As consumers turn up the heat on palm oil, the industry averts its gaze to the Congo Basin. Can the region avoid SE Asia’s mass deforestation? Scientists from CIFOR went to find out…
Does palm oil expansion = mass deforestation?
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FORESTS NEWS
Why there's more to ecological restoration than ecology
Treaties to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands worldwide upped the demand for experts in ecological restoration. But do the professionals have the right multi-discipline skillsets?
Mind the gap
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How do you protect what’s everywhere but nowhere?
While Ethiopia’s 4 billion tree planting progam steams on, the deforestation of its invisible dry forests continue unabated
What the scientist’s think
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
New research shows why cutting down trees could jeopardize a crucial protein source for rural Nigerians
 
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PUBLICATIONS
From growing food to growing cash (Infobrief)
Understanding the drivers of food choice in the context of rapid agrarian change in Indonesia
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Soil carbon storage (Journal article)
Deep soil carbon storage in tree-dominated land use systems in tropical lowlands of Kalimantan
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New look at biomass change in forests (Journal article)
Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data
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Restore the Earth | September 28th 2019 at New York City 

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5th Annual FLARE Network Meeting
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INBAR Garden at International Horticultural Exhibition 2019
29 April - 07 October 2019, Yanqing District, Beijing, China
 
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XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019: Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development
29 September - 05 October 2019, Expo Unimed, Curitiba, Brazil.
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