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Indonesia’s Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) is collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to .
/PRNewswire/ The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that six scientists have been named the 2022 recipients of the Pew fellowship in marine conservation..
JAKARTA Pulpwood and palm oil companies were among the biggest contributors to the loss of a Manhattan-size area of forest in Indonesia’s Papua region in 2021, a new report says. Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs and its own investigations on the ground, Pusaka, an environmental nonprofit, reported that it had detected 5,810 hectares […]
28 April 2021 Home » Events » Food Security and Land-Use Planning in Papua and West Papua Share this With support from UKCCU, through a program called “A Scientific Advocacy Support Mechanism for Sustainable Development in Papua and West Papua”, CIFOR and partners are undertaking a number of activities aimed at supporting the provincial governments of Papua and West Papua in realizing their commitments as stated in the 2018 Manokwari Declaration, particularly in regard to food security and land-use planning. In response to the West Papua Provincial Government’s need to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security in West Papua, CIFOR has collaborated with the West Papua Provincial Research and Development Agency (Balitbangda) to conduct three surveys on disruptions to food systems. The first survey assesses general impacts on food value chains, the second survey assesses impacts on food producers living in forested areas, while the third survey assesses impacts on food consumers in West Papua.
Helping Papuans protect Indonesia’s last frontier: Q&A with Bustar Maitar Bustar Maitar’s storied career in environmental activism began in the Indonesian region of Papua, the land of his birth and today the coveted target of extractives and industrial agriculture companies. In his time at Greenpeace International, Maitar led a forest conservation campaign that pressured major corporations like Nestlé and Unilever to commit to zero deforestation in their supply chains. Maitar’s new venture, the EcoNusa Foundation, brings him back to Papua, where it all began, to push for protecting the forests, waters and other ecosystems of this last pristine frontier in Indonesia.