The Amazon is not only essential to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, it is also the ancestral territories of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Forest conservation efforts, therefore, cannot be separated from the rights of those who have lived in and managed these lands for centuries. In 2010, at the 16th Conference of the … Read more
An immigrant from Cusco settled in Madre de Dios, Peru. Photo by Yoly Gutierrez / CIFOR-ICRAF Since its introduction as a global mechanism to fight climate change through forest conservation, the REDD+ scheme has sparked debate—not just about its effectiveness in reducing emissions, but also about its potential impacts on local communities where it is … Read more
Woman carrying firewood in Yangambi, Tshopo Province – DRC. Photo by Axel Fassio / CIFOR-ICRAF How will the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) greenhouse gas emissions evolve as the country implements its commitments under the Paris Agreement? How does that scenario compare to business-as-usual? And what does that really look like on the ground? A … Read more
Woman carrying firewood in Yangambi, Tshopo Province – DRC. Photo by Axel Fassio / CIFOR-ICRAF How will the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) greenhouse gas emissions evolve as the country implements its commitments under the Paris Agreement? How does that scenario compare to business-as-usual? And what does that really look like on the ground? A … Read more
A cocoa plantation in Cameroon. Photo by Ollivier Girard / CIFOR-ICRAF Perennial woody crops—that is, those with a life cycle of at least three years, such as coffee, cocoa, grapevines, olive trees and oil palm—span about 183 million hectares across the planet, produce about a gigaton of food per year and are critical to diets … Read more