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World Agroforestry publications

Fruit, nuts, fish and more: forests for food

  A new policy brief from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry shows how trees sustain the secure production of nutritious food.   The brief, Synthesizing knowledge from around the world, the authors show how trees contribute to the four dimensions of food security and nutrition: availability, accessibility, usability and stability. Trees need to be included in global efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal no. 2, Zero Hunger. The brief sets out the case for policymakers to help them develop agricultural and forestry policies that will better consider the numerous contributions of forests and trees. Maximizing these contributions needs integrated landscape approaches and agricultural policies that better integrate trees into farming systems.

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty

Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty Research reveals gender disparities in accessing funds Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation activities. Known as “climate finance” under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the idea of mobilizing funds from countries in the global north into local, national or international environmental efforts in the south, is embedded into the U.N. Paris Agreement on climate change. Yet not much research has yet explored the potential impact or ways countries manage these contributions as they trickle down to the national level. As a result, scientists with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) decided to study five national financing mechanisms in Indonesia to learn more about the way gen

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