Large Scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in The Gambia
UN Environment and the government of Gambia have launched the country’s largest adaptation project, which aims to develop a sustainable natural resource-based economy.
Degraded soils cannot support lives
India has just declared that it will restore 21 million hectares of degraded land. However, this can only be done by community-level engagement and providing based inputs for replication.
Gender in Forestry and REDD+ in Indonesia
This policy brief provides considerations for mainstreaming gender concerns into REDD+ and the forestry sector in Indonesia.
EU REDD Facility
The EU REDD Facility was established in 2010 and is hosted by the European Forest Institute.
An Overview of REDD and its history
Do you find REDD confusing, opaque, and obtuse? Do you wonder where it came from, and how it impacts indigenous people? Find out here.
Adaptation in the Congo Basin
In the face of climate change, two main types of strategies — mitigation and adaptation — have emerged and are now widely recognized. Mitigation aims to reduce the sources or...
Spekboom Carbon Sequestration and Rehabilitation Project
In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Subtropical Thicket has faced severe pressure from agriculture.
Integrating Community-based Carbon Management and Monitoring with Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for REDD+
A summary of the Sumernet study on implementing an integrated community-based participatory and remote sensing measurement and monitoring system for REDD+ in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Resilient Landscapes for Resilient Communities
A Beginning in Pemba from Community Forests International on Vimeo.
ContextPemba is a small underdeveloped tropical island off the coast of Tanzania. As a small island, Pemba is...
The Congo Basin Forests: a solution for both adaptation and mitigation
This articles describes solutions for both adaptation and mitigation in the Congo Basin Forests.
Local hopes and worries about REDD+ projects
A family collects Brazil nuts from their forest. Kristen Evans/CIFOR
Local forest communities in the REDD+ project sites of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- Background
This report is part of the baseline assessment conducted under the “Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM)” project. This project aims...
Linking Adaptation and Mitigation
Ban Huay Win, Nan Province, Thailand
This research aims to address the potential linkages between mitigation and adaptation in community forestry contexts. This case...
Technical Working Group on Forestry and Environment
TWG F&E address issues of REDD and finance of climate change mitigation in the forest sector.
REDD+ 101
REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is based on a simple idea: pay developing countries to reduce CO2 emissions from the forest sector.
The...
ROBIN
ROBIN provides information for policy, together with resource use options, under scenarios of socio-economic and climate change.
Forests and Climate Change Toolbox
The Forests and Climate Change Toolbox has been developed by CIFOR and the World Agroforestry Centre to build understanding and technical proficiency on issues of climate change and forests...
Reseau National des Agro-sylvo-pastorale
Programme de fixation des jeunes (maraîchage, reboisement, élevage) dans leur terroir; accroissement des productions animales et céréalières grâce à l’application des paquets technologiques défini
Natural Resource Management and Climate Change
Natural Resource Management and Climate Change
Resistance to droughts
The project will organize local communities to implement a low cost adaptation and mitigation measures that will improve their well-being. It promotes the...
Flooding and drought
The project aims minimize the impact of flooding and drought by strengthening drought and flood mitigation among rural poor in the district and reduce the...
