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Publicação revisada por pares
Fevereiro 2021
Indonésia

There is an urgent need for a global transition to sustainable and wildlife-friendly farming systems that provide social and economic equity and protect ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. Java is home to 60% of Indonesia’s population and harbors many endemic species; thus, managing agriculture alongside human well-being and biodiversity is vital.

Persistence and Change in Customary Tenure Systems in Myanmar
Relatórios e Pesquisa
Janeiro 2021
Myanmar

Based on a broad review of the existing documentation, the study describes the diversity of customary tenure systems in various regions of Myanmar; it looks at what they have in common and how they differ. It investigates the processes that affect or weaken the community jurisdiction over their lands and resources.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2020
Burkina Faso
República Centro-Africana
Camarões
Argélia
Eritreia
Etiópia
Mali
Mauritânia
Níger
Nigéria
Sudão
Senegal
Sudão do Sul
Chade

‘Over the past three decades hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, have transformed large swathes of the region’s arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about three million people. Once-denuded landscapes are now home to abundant trees, crops, and livestock.'

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Dezembro 2020
Senegal
África Ocidental

Valuable lessons can be learned from smallholder farmers who have successfully protected and regenerated tree cover across agricultural landscapes in Senegal, with minimal reliance on tree nurseries, seedling distribution or tree planting. In the process, they have restored soil fertility to sustainably increase agricultural production.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Dezembro 2020
Senegal
África Ocidental

In the above initiatives, self-motivated populations increased food security and reduced vulnerabilities to climatic shocks by restoring and sustainably managing local forest resources. To regenerate agroforestry parklands, farmers built on traditional systems to increase on-farm tree density and convert degraded lands to densely wooded savannas.

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Publicação revisada por pares
Novembro 2020
Estados Unidos
Vietnam
Alemanha
Ilhas Wallis e Futuna

Rapid expansion of unsustainable farming practices in upland areas of Southeast Asia threatens food security and the environment. This study assessed alternative agroforestry systems for sustainable land management and livelihood improvement in northwest Vietnam.

Recursos e Ferramentas de Treinamento
Outubro 2020
Sudeste Asiático

This guide is for forestry practitioners from local communities, governments, the private sector, civil society and academia in Southeast Asia. It explains the fundamentals of forest landscape restoration (FLR) and serves as a starting point for future exploration and design of FLR initiatives. 

Governing Landscapes for Ecosystem Services: A Participatory Land- Use Scenario Development in the N
Publicação revisada por pares
Outubro 2020
Vietnam

Land-use planning is an important policy instrument for governing landscapes to achieve multifunctionality in rural areas. This paper presents a case study conducted in Na Nhan commune in the northwest montane region of Vietnam to assess land-use strategies toward multiple ecosystem services, through integrated land-use planning.

Publicação revisada por pares
Outubro 2020
Estados Unidos

Knowledge transfer depends on the motivations of the target users. A case study of the intention of Indonesian coffee farmers to use a tree canopy trimming technique in pine–based agroforestry highlights path-dependency and complexity of social-ecological relationships.

Publicação revisada por pares
Setembro 2020
Colômbia
Portugal
Estados Unidos

Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices—incorporating trees into grazing lands—to mitigate climate change. However, the cumulative potential of scaling up silvopastoral systems at national levels is not well quantified.

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