Landscape Alliance

Dans la région de l’Est du Cameroun, le CIFOR promeut l’utilisation des foyers améliorés dans les communautés abritant les réfugiés, afin de diminuer la pression sur les forêts fortement menacées par la coupe du bois de chauffe. Les femmes de quatre communautés (Bertoua 2, Mandjou, Garoua Boulaï et Gado-Badzéré) ont été formées en fabrication des foyers améliorés en argile, et elles formeront à le...

Dans la région de l’Est du Cameroun, le CIFOR promeut l’utilisation des foyers améliorés dans les communautés abritant les réfugiés, afin de diminuer la pression sur les forêts fortement menacées par la coupe du bois de chauffe. Les femmes de quatre communautés (Bertoua 2, Mandjou, Garoua Boulaï et Gado-Badzéré) ont été formées en fabrication des foyers améliorés en argile, et elles formeront à le...

Dans la région de l’Est du Cameroun, le CIFOR promeut l’utilisation des foyers améliorés dans les communautés abritant les réfugiés, afin de diminuer la pression sur les forêts fortement menacées par la coupe du bois de chauffe. Les femmes de quatre communautés (Bertoua 2, Mandjou, Garoua Boulaï et Gado-Badzéré) ont été formées en fabrication des foyers améliorés en argile, et elles formeront à le...

Hari Perempuan Sedunia merupakan perayaan untuk menyuarakan persamaan hak dengan lantang dan jelas “Hak perempuan adalah hak asasi manusia!” yang jatuh pada 8 Maret setiap tahunnya. Tema Hari Perempuan Sedunia 2021 yaitu ‘Perempuan dalam Kepemimpinan: Mencapai Masa Depan yang Setara di Masa COVID-19'. Suara dan kontribusi perempuan harus menjadi inti dari rencana pemulihan nasional dan global dari...

To celebrate women leaders and to pave the way to more empowered women and girls in the future, we turn to Iliana Monterroso and Sammy Carsan, CIFOR-ICRAF scientists who are building the bridges to a more gender-inclusive society.

Saat ini Indonesia tengah bergiat mencari peluang dan alternatif terbaik mengatasi tekanan terhadap keamanan pasokan dan krisis energi di masa depan. CIFOR bekerja sama dengan Balai Besar Penelitian Bioteknologi dan Pemuliaan Tanaman Hutan, KLHK melakukan riset identifikasi jenis-jenis tanaman yang berpotensi sebagai penghasil biofuel sekaligus potensi tanaman untuk melindungi bentang alam sekitar...

This episode features three PhD students working with CIFOR’s COLANDS initiative. Through integrated landscapes approaches, they are trying to bridge differences between actors with various interests and goals in Zambia’s Kalomo district.

In Indonesia, the role-playing game COmMoDO – short for COMpanion MOdelling in InDOnesia was created by Dr. Nur Hasanah for her PhD– depicts a landscape in East Kalimantan with a mosaic of forests, oil palm plantations and rice fields along a river. It aims to increase understanding around the factors that influence local communities’ decisions on their land and livelihoods, in particular labor al...

Lessons learned from Guyana’s forest monitoring system and the country’s experience as an early adopter of REDD+. Guests: Hans Sukhdeo, a project officer at Guyana Forestry Commission and Martin Herold, senior associate at CIFOR-ICRAF and professor of geoinformation science and remote sensing at Wageningen University.

Industri mebel merupakan salah satu penyumbang devisa terbesar di Indonesia. Di tahun 2019, industri mebel telah menyumbang 1,7 miliar dolar AS atau sekitar 25 triliun rupiah bagi devisa negara. Bersama Peneliti CIFOR-ICRAF, Ahmad Dermawan dan Ketua Asosiasi Pengrajin Kayu Jepara, Achmad Zainudin, mari dengarkan perbincangan kami tentang pentingnya sertifikasi legalitas kayu dalam industri mebel,...

We live on it, we grow food in it, it is time to stop taking soils for granted Explore the hidden world underfoot with Leigh Ann Winowiecki, leader of soil and land health research and Rupesh Bhomia, wetland bio-geochemist at CIFOR-ICRAF.

Listen to ideas and analysis exchanged by policy experts, academia and private sector representatives at GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World-One Health, toward improved, just and sustainable landscapes management.

Dietary change is occurring in urban and rural communities all over the world. Listen to CIFOR-ICRAF scientists Stepha McMullin and Mulia Nurhasan as they highlight the need to collaborate with local communities to shift to a healthier diet.

Through local knowledge and tradition, Indigenous communities around the world have played a vital role in protecting the Earth for millennia. Listen to Let’s Talk Trees to find out more.

This episode celebrates mangroves’ “protective power” against hurricanes and storm surges. They protect societies against extreme climate events and sea level rise, buffering storm surges and ocean waves that reach the coastline. But what are the limits of their resilience?

Manglares, ecosistemas anfibios, de importancia crítica para los esfuerzos de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático se pierden cada día a causa del hombre y los eventos extremos. Tres científicos: Rosa Román de CIFOR, Miguel Cifuentes de CATIE y Jorge Herrera de CINVESTAD responden diez preguntas que aclaran la situación de los manglares en la región y el mundo, sus desafíos y oportunidades.

The carbon on your plate: mangrove and aquaculture Shoring up mangrove protection amid shrimp production CIFOR Principal Scientist Daniel Murdiyarso and Matt McLuckie, director of Investor Relations at Planet Tracker explore the longstanding clash between mangrove conservation efforts and the aquaculture industry. A recent report states that mangrove conservation benefits the aquaculture industry...

In light of World Refugee Day, this episode of Let’s Talk Trees addresses the environmental concerns in refugee areas. Mary Njenga, a bioenergy research scientist at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and Ruth Mendum, associate director for gender initiatives and an assistant professor of research at Pennsylvania State University share their ongoing work to address energy and food security issues in refug...

A brief explanation of Brazil’s forestry politics by Amy Duchelle, CIFOR team leader of climate change, energy and low carbon. Published as part of the REDD+ series on Forest News.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed flaws in our global food system, demonstrating how vulnerable it is to unexpected shocks. While there is an emphasis on the production of food staples, including wheat, maize and rice, to meet basic food security needs, in many regions there is a lack of nutrient-rich foods, leading to malnutrition. Amy Ickowitz, team leader of the Sustainable Landscapes and Livel...

This podcast highlights the link between trees, forests and the role they play in regulating water supply for nearby communities. Ani Adiwinata Nawir, a scientist working with the Kanoppi Project at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), discusses the underground river hidden beneath the karst ecosystem and limestone in the cultural heartland of Yogyakarta, one of the driest areas...

Tune in for highlights from our previous webinar that addresses the current issues around wildmeat in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion is led by CIFOR Director General, Robert Nasi, with CIFOR Associate Nathalie van Vliet, CIFOR Senior Associate John E. Fa and CIFOR Research Consultant Lauren Coad.

On this episode we will take you to Africa where wood fuel remains a major energy and livelihood source for many rural and urban poor households. We talk to Phosiso Sola, ICRAF scientist who is currently focusing on governance of wood fuel with the aim to develop a sustainable charcoal value chains in African drylands.

In this episode that coincides with the International Day of Forests, we go back to the basics and discuss forests’ invaluable role for the planet and for humanity. Our guest CIFOR Director General Robert Nasi shares his views on the most pressing challenges in forest conservation and management. And in the race against climate change, commitment and action are needed more than ever.

In our very first episode that coincides with International Women’s Day, we highlight the lives of the world’s invisible heroes: women farmers who feed the world. Our guests Houria Djoudi, CIFOR Senior Scientist, Sustainable Landscape and Livelihood team, and Ana Maria Paez-Valencia, ICRAF Scientist on Gender Unit, share their insights on the roles of women in forest communities and the inspiratio...