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Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a looming global water crisis that has already hit home in places like Australia’s Murray Darling basin —...

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Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods

This blog was first published on the website of Landscape News Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air, but some of their greatest benefits...

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Planting trees on a stony hill: a story with pictures

Researchers in Indonesia have produced an illustrated book to help farmers better understand research results   The illustrated story book, Menanam pohon di bukit batu (Planting trees on a stony...

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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses

  Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making more money thanks to the help of an ‘innovation platform’   “When we decided to build a bee house, fellow...

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For the love of restoration

  The challenge of balancing quantity and quality in forest landscape restoration   By Aida Bargués Tobella   ‘Forest Landscape Restoration’ is on everyone’s lips. Governments all over the world have...

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A Green Climate Fund program that all Philippine sectors can call their own

  Non-governmental organizations reviewed the proposed Philippine program of the Green Climate Fund and shared their climate priorities.   In the past few months, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)...

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How will the Philippines measure the success of its flagship reforestation...

  The participation of public and private entities is a crucial element in developing a monitoring and evaluation framework that includes the issues of all relevant sectors at national and...

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Trees on farms in Honduras: a chance for biodiversity

  Among the cattle ranches, mountainous natural forests and smallholdings of Catacamas, Honduras, researcher Yves Zinngrebe encounters farmers with both large and small holdings who are interested in...

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International Women’s Day 2019: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change...

On March 8 the world celebrates International Women’s Day. In the Philippines, Cathy Watson interviewed one of ICRAF’s female scientists, Caroline Piñon also called Yuyen. Yuyen: I joined ICRAF after...

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Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa

Originally published by the CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems Among East Africa’s biodiversity hotspots is the Desa’a forest, which borders Tigray and Afar in Northern Ethiopia....

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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests

About 40% of Cameroon’s territory is covered in forest. Philippe JONG/Shutterstock Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); Divine Foundjem Tita, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),...

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Mobilizing youth for forestry development

Youth leaders from the Asia and the Pacific discussed the crucial role of young people in steering the forestry sector to a sustainable future.  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

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Understanding success in research-for-development projects

A new study argues that there are five key success factors that need to be considered during the design of collaborative research-for-development projects and a further 10 key success factors that...

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Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros...

  Originally published by the Darwin Institute  Forming a part of the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot is the island of Anjouan. Anjouan has experienced one of the most alarming...

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‘Income that surpasses the waiting’: in dire need of trees, Malawi tries...

Success in rejuvenating land through forest-based enterprises has had dramatic outcomes for farmers. In the late afternoon in the highlands of Malawi, the air is chilly as the sun descends. But the...

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