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Fuzzy forest framing favours fallacies

"Perhaps the International Year of Forests can help decision makers to focus on various meanings of ‘forest’, and the trade-offs each type entails".

By Meine van Noordwijk

Indonesia: reforms should first deal with historical land rights conflicts

Burning of peatlands in Indonesia: Photo credit: ICRAF/Rizki Pandu PermanaIndonesia reforms should provide clarity, simplify procedures and conclusively deal with unresolved property rights whose complex nature continues to stifle progress across the forest margins of Indonesia.

Map Identifies Most Vulnerable 'Spots' in the Wake of a Changing Climate

A new study matches future climate change ‘hotspots’ with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin America as well, where in fewer than 40 years, the prospect of shorter, hotter or drier growing seasons could imperil hundreds of millions of already

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