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    Forests land use
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 25, 2024

    4 Priorities for Managing US Lands in the Face of Climate Change

    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    • land use
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    A tractor and trucks drive through soy bean fields.
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    • land use
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    October 2, 2023

    What Is Peat Subsidence and How Can Countries Prevent this Environmental Disaster?

    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • land use
    Local people in a boat survey the Singkil Peat Swamp in Indonesia.
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • land use
    Food
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    Forests
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be

    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    unloading log truck at lumber processing mill
    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    Forests
    Insights
    July 5, 2023

    Harvesting Wood Has Overlooked Carbon Costs

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • land use
    • deforestation
    • Food
    A loading dock filled with timber on the coast in China.
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • land use
    • deforestation
    • Food
    Forests
    News
    November 2, 2021

    STATEMENT: Glasgow Leaders Issue Declaration on Forests and Land Use

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • land use
    • COP26
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • land use
    • COP26
    Forests
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    February 9, 2021

    How Local People Are Mapping Billions of Trees on Their Land

    • land use
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • climate impacts
    • Forests
    Woman stading next to a forest in Rwanda
    • land use
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • climate impacts
    • Forests
    Ocean
    News
    January 27, 2021

    STATEMENT: Biden Administration Commits to Protect 30% of U.S. Land and Ocean by 2030

    • Food
    • Forests
    • conservation
    • land use
    • biodiversity
    • fisheries
    • Ocean
    • protected areas
    • Food
    • Forests
    • conservation
    • land use
    • biodiversity
    • fisheries
    • Ocean
    • protected areas
    Forests
    Insights
    February 10, 2020

    Want to Grow Trees? Consider These 5 Lessons

    • restoration
    The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, works to restore forest within a national park degraded by fire and logging. As of 2013, 450 hectares are under restoration, with over 4,000 seedlings planted. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI
    • restoration
    Insights
    February 7, 2020

    The Causes and Effects of Soil Erosion, and How to Prevent It

    • Forests
    • land use
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • food security
    A plum orchid planted in dry soil as a result of drought.
    • Forests
    • land use
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • food security
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 16, 2019

    For Rural Communities, Protecting Land Is a Better Investment than Deforestation

    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    In India's Narmada District, legal recognition of communities' land rights have enabled villages to invest in sustainable, more productive land management. Photo by...
    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cities
    Initiatives
    September 12, 2018

    Cities4Forests

    Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    News
    July 11, 2018

    COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: Una nueva investigación revela un campo de juego desigual entre las comunidades y las empresas que compiten por los derechos sobre las tierras

    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Civil Society Organizations Use Public Information to Protect Forests

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Rangers in Kibale National Park, Uganda, learn to use the Forest Watcher app developed by the Jane Goodall Institute, Google, and Global Forest Watch. Photo by Lilian Pintea/Jane Goodall Institute
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Democratic Republic of the Congo Enables Forest-based Communities to Secure Land Rights

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Community consultation in Lukolela, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    African Countries Commit to Restore More Than 63 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Farmers and officials at a tree nursery in Nyandarua County, Kenya. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016

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