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by Libby Leonard on 4 December 2022 This article was originally published on EcoWatch The practice of agroforestry, from a broad perspective, is farming with trees, but looking at it more closely, it’s a land management system that capitalizes on the biological interconnectedness of trees, crops and livestock to create thriving...

Beating Famine in the Sahel 2019 (PDF – 19MB)

by Douglas Sheil and Aida Bargues Tobella “Greater tree cover can reduce or increase water availability, and it is crucial to understand why” Full article here: ETFRNnews60-Sheil-More-trees-for-more-water-drylands (1)  

By Emmanuel Hitimana Find the original article here. How did Rwanda manage to restore more than 800,000 hectares — almost half of its original pledge — in less than a decade?  HUYE, Rwanda, May 20 2020 (IPS) – In 2011, when Rwanda committed to restoring 2 million hectares of land in a...

BY JANE GOODALL AND MARC BENIOFF AUGUST 27, 2020 9:21 AM EDT Jane Goodall DBE, is founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace Marc Benioff is the co-owner of TIME and the chair and CEO of Salesforce The article was originally published on Time Magazine For more than six...

Nairobi, Kenya, 26 May 2020 – Today, more than 7 billion humans share the planet with approximately 3 trillion trees, with about a quarter of these trees living outside ‘forests’ and 45% of trees and 40% of people living in the tropics, where most of the recent deforestation has occurred.  But...

Authors: Joy M.B. Tukahirwa, Rick Kamugisha, Ocan Bosco, Odour Walter Background In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic leading to catastrophic loss of human life and harms to livelihoods across the world, the Government of Uganda (GOU) announced a strict national lockdown effective 1 April 2020 in order to reduce...

Originally published on Science Magazine 368 (6491), 580-581 Tree planting must be carefully planned and implemented to achieve desired outcomes A plethora of articles suggest that tree planting can overcome a host of environmental problems, including climate change, water shortages, and the sixth mass extinction (1–3). Business leaders and politicians have...

I attended one of three major biodiversity planning meetings this February, originally scheduled for China, but relocated to Rome. The day I arrived, there were three cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 in northern Italy. Two days later there were 21, and five days later there were 229. I left the...

by David Charles How secure resource rights help communities in Africa restore forests and build local economies “Landscape restoration is not new,” said Steven Lawry, former director of CIFOR’s Forests and Governance Research portfolio. “But global and national commitments such as the Bonn Challenge and AFR100 and the urgency of addressing climate change mean...

by Tony Rinaudo   Where natural resource management principles are applied, there is “resource expansion” – more fodder, more grain, more fuel wood, more water.  These principles, including Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) directly contribute to a reduction in conflict.  Afterall, if there is enough to go around – why...