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  • Deforestation, overexploitation, megafires... forests in danger

    Deforestation, overexploitation, megafires... forests in danger

    12/09/2023

    The world's forests, reservoirs of life and carbon, are in constant decline. How can they be better protected? Plinio Sist, director of the Forests and Societies unit, specialising in forest ecosystems at CIRAD, and Hervé Le Treut, climatologist and former member of the IPCC, explained the importance of preserving forests on the TV5 Monde programme Grand Angle.

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  • Paysage qui intègre espaces forestiers et cultivés en Amazonie © R. Poccard-Chapuis, Cirad

    Understanding the effects of logging in a context of climate change

    05/09/2023

    CIRAD has been analysing data on the functioning of the Amazonian forest ecosystem for over thirty years, in order to understand the effects of forest exploitation and its capacity to regenerate in a context of climate change. It coordinates an international network of sites for monitoring tropical forest dynamics (TmFO), which includes 30 experimental sites, 17 of which are in Amazonia, spread over 12 countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Surinam, CAR, Gabon, CAR, Malaysia and Indonesia).

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  • An assessment of the state of silvipastoral systems and their capacity to generate ecosystem services in the Colombian Amazon

    An assessment of the state of silvipastoral systems and their capacity to generate ecosystem services in the Colombian Amazon

    29/08/2023

    Livestock production in the Colombian Amazon is generally dual-purpose (meat and milk) and based on silvopastoral systems. A study coordinated by Marie Ange Ngo Bieng, from the UPR Forêts et Sociétés, sought to assess the extent to which the ecological conditions of these systems correspond to the ecosystem services they generate, based on an assessment of farmers' knowledge of tree species.

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  • A systematic study of the scope and patterns of green consumption in sub-Saharan Africa

    A systematic study of the scope and patterns of green consumption in sub-Saharan Africa

    22/08/2023

    Despite the importance of 'green consumption', it has received little attention in sub-Saharan Africa. To fill this gap, a systematic review of the scientific literature was conducted on green consumption patterns in this region, using three parameters: green consumption, behaviour and location.

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  • A common framework for modelling the regeneration of disturbed tropical forests

    A common framework for modelling the regeneration of disturbed tropical forests

    15/08/2023

    Until now, there has been no model of forest regeneration trajectories, considering disturbed forests within a common framework, along a gradient of disturbance intensity, according to different types of disturbance. This model, developed by an international team of researchers including three members of the UPR Forêts et Sociétés and published in the journal Ecological Modelling, makes it possible to understand and compare the way in which vegetation attributes overlap in disturbed forests. The abstract of this publication is reproduced below.

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  • La construction de routes en pleine forêt engendre souvent des dégradations et une fragilisation des écosystèmes. Pour éviter cet écueil, les exploitations durables de bois dressent des inventaires des espèces d'arbres à éviter, et cartographient consciencieusement le territoire. © C. Bourgoin, Cirad

    Updating sustainable forestry models

    08/08/2023

    Faced with an ever-increasing demand for wood, scientists have come together to set up a system that is unique in the world: an observatory of "managed" tropical forests. The aim is to monitor the evolution of exploited tropical forests and deduce sustainable exploitation models.

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  • Forestry research must become more interdisciplinary

    Forestry research must become more interdisciplinary

    01/08/2023

    FORESTT stands for "Forests and global change: socio-ecological systems in transition". This is the name of the new Priority Research Programme and Equipment (PEPR), which aims to bring together all French forestry research. Led by INRAE, in collaboration with CIRAD and CNRS, the PEPR FORESTT will run for eight years, with a budget of €50 million.

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  • What potential does certification have in the fight against imported tropical deforestation?

    What potential does certification have in the fight against imported tropical deforestation?

    25/07/2023

    For almost thirty years, private certification standards have been developed and implemented to differentiate and promote sustainable agricultural and forestry sectors. These standards are now being considered as a way of helping to combat deforestation imported by France, and potentially by the European Union. But are they up to the challenge?

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  • A geomatics engineer joins the UPR [[Forests and Societies]]

    A geomatics engineer joins the UPR Forests and Societies

    18/07/2023

    Clarisse vautrin was recruited by CIRAD in May 2023 as a geomatics engineer.

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  • Forest and Society Collective Celebration Day

    Forest and Society Collective Celebration Day

    11/07/2023

    As part of the traditional CIRAD days held every year during the first week of July, the Forêts et Sociétés collective met on Friday 7 July at the Hôtel Disini in Castries (Hérault).

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