Recent research comparing semi-natural grasslands and sown pastures in Nicaragua reveals that their productivity falls off in the dry season and then completely peters out.
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Why cattle ranchers keep trees on pastures
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Grasslands with trees and shrubs are more like the tortoise than the hare in the eponymous race - slower but steadier in production.
Logging, mining, construction and farming are some of the leading causes—or drivers—of the deforestation being witnessed throughout the developing world.
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The drivers and levers of deforestation
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Today, deforestation's drivers are linked to the global economy, population growth, and urbanization, so countries need to be agile enough to cope with these shifts.
Value chain interventions in Nicaragua led to the ‘taro boom’ of 2003–2008, which saw exports of the ancient root crop to the US quadruple from 3,300 to nearly 13,000 metric tons.
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Livelihood and business assets matter in pro-poor value chain development
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Businesses, development practitioners and project funders looking to design sustainable interventions for value chain development that work for the poor will welcome the new manual.
The term landscape originates from the Dutch word ‘Landschap’. It was introduced by Flemish and Dutch painters in the 16th century for paintings of natural or rural areas.
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Painting a picture of the future agroforestry research landscape
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Landscape approaches to future forest and tree resources management
According to the United Nations REDD Programme, the implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) projects can occur effectively if a “transparent, comparable, coherent, complete and accurate measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)
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Online carbon technology demonstration set to help farmers
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IUFRO-FORNESSA regional congress participants were shown an online MRV tool that could encourage greater adoption of REDD+ in Africa
