Dynamic thematic portfolios combine detailed narratives with Linked Open Data to provide comprehensive global overview GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this

By: Morgan Erickson-Davis Date: August 3rd 2016 Source: Mongabay After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017. Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.

Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are