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Securing Rights for People and the Climate in Africa

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • climate change
Way back to Lukolela  View on the way back to Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo.   Photo by Ollivier Girard for CIFOR   Center for International Forestry Research
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • climate change

Video: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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Food Security and Climate Change in Africa: A Question of Political Will

  • Food
  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • food security
One-quarter of Africa’s projected food gap can be addressed by supporting a drive to achieve replacement level fertility by 2050. Better food security could be achieved by reducing food loss and waste. Photo Credit: Mark Jordahl/Flickr
  • Food
  • Forests
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Climate
  • climate change
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  • deforestation
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New French Satellite Imagery to Help Forest Management in the Congo Basin

  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • rivers
When it comes to monitoring forests, the Congo Basin remains one of the most challenging environments in the world. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • rivers

Community Forests: An Undervalued Approach to Climate Change Mitigation

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights
Legally recognized community forests store about 37 billion tonnes of carbon. Photo credit: Ollivier Girard, CIFOR
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights

Infographic: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • land rights
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • land rights
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Global Forest Watch Commodities

  • Forests
  • Forests
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  • deforestation
  • fires
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Q&A: Why Are Community Forests So Important?

  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • land rights
Hundreds of millions of people across Africa, Asia, and Latin America depend on forests for their livelihoods and culture. Photo credit: Jolien Schure, CIFOR
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • land rights

Tar Sands Threaten World’s Largest Boreal Forest

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
Canada’s boreal forests feature mountain ranges; forested plains, bogs, and peatlands; coniferous and mixed forests; and millions of waterways. Photo credit: Ken Owen, Flickr
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
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  • Forests
  • fires
  • commodities

3 Myths and Facts about Forest and Landscape Restoration

  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • deforestation
  • mapping
In Rwanda, 85 percent of the population makes a living from subsistence farming of degraded, formerly forested lands. Photo Credit: Gates Foundation/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • deforestation
  • mapping
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Putting out fires in Riau, March 2014. Photo by Julius Lawalata / WRI.
  • fires
  • Forests
  • commodities