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.
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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
Making the most of forest monitoring in Guyana An early adopter of REDD+ practices shares lessons learned Shares
Guyana, a country in the northeast part of South America is one of a handful of countries that has managed to keep its deforestation and forest degradation low. Situated in the center of the Guiana Shield, one of the four largest remaining standing tropical rainforests in the world, For years, Guyana has also managed to keep its deforestation rate at around 0.07 percent, according to data from Global Forest Watch.
Guyana is also one of the early implementers of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and forest Degradation). In 2009, while the concept of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation was still in its infancy, Guyana and Norway made a pact that if Guyana managed to k
After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia received its first results-based financial rewards last year.
REDD+, a policy initiative recognized under the U.N. Paris Agreement in 2015, was created as a way to provide incentives to conserve tropical forests and curb planet-warming greenhouse gases that are emitted when they are cut down.
Initially, it was conceived as a market-based means for industrialized countries to pay forest-rich countries for their emissions reductions and contributions to meeting overall global climate targets through financial credits.
Indonesia applied to receive REDD+ results-based payments (RBP) based on data illustrating its efforts to curb emissions under terms detailed in an Indonesia-Norway bilateral partnership and the GCF.