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Cocoa and agroforestry: betting on natural tree regeneration
02/05/2023
Cocoa growing is still one of the main causes of deforestation in West Africa. However, nowadays, using agroforestry, the value chain is helping to reintroduce trees into the landscape. This is a vital transition, but one that relies on costly programmes. In Ivory Coast, scientists have gone over 240 hectares of cocoa plantings with a fine-tooth comb. Their results are encouraging the value chain to bet more on natural regeneration, either of the trees already there or via spontaneous new trees.
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Gender discrimination and sexism at work: talking and acting through forum theatre
23/04/2023
How should we react when faced with "compliments" and recurrent remarks about women's clothing in meetings? What place and what consideration should be given to women and their words? And as a man, how should we position ourselves? CoTéAct and a group of researchers from CIRAD's Forests and Societies Research Unit (UR) have co-created this theatre-forum playlet to question gender inequalities and ordinary sexism within a team.
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18/04/2023
Wanting to preserve biodiversity in tropical forest areas without involving the local and indigenous communities who live there is neither fair nor effective, say geographer Christian Kull and ecologist Jacques Tassin in an article for "Le Monde".
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One Forest Summit in Gabon: what to take away from the summit on tropical forests?
11/04/2023
Launched at the initiative of the French President, the One Forest Summit was held in Gabon on 1 and 2 March. CIRAD was heavily involved in preparing, programming and running the scientific side of the summit. More than 1 000 participants met in Libreville for the sixth One Planet Summit, which was entirely devoted to tropical forests. Here is a look back at this high point.
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28/03/2023
The BioForest project, which will be launched in September 2023 for a period of 3 years, should help valorise inventory data from experimental sites in selectively logged tropical forests in order to better understand how the joint effect of logging and climate can affect biodiversity and forest dynamics in tropical forests.
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A dedicated website for the Terri4Sol project
28/03/2023
The website of the Terri4Sol project (Soil restoration and multifunctionality of degraded forest landscapes in Ivory Cost/Côte d'Ivoire) was officially launched on 21 March 2023.
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Our planet would not be habitable without forests
21/03/2023
On the occasion of the International Day of Forests on 21 March, an international collective of 850 researchers, students, engineers and technicians is calling for the urgent safeguarding of tropical forests for rural populations and the world in general.
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An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services
14/03/2023
Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics of ecosystem services question if the approach can account for the multiple values of ecosystems to diverse groups of people, or for aspects of inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an ecosystem service approach often overlooks power dimensions and capabilities that are core to environmental justice.
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07/03/2023
Identifying the drivers of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes is of the utmost importance to contribute to global challenges like climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss, or food security.
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One Forest Summit: CIRAD’s sustained commitment to tropical forests
28/02/2023
On 1 and 2 March 2023, Heads of State and representatives from the world of research, civil society and the private sector will be meeting to build a shared ambition of safeguarding the future of tropical forests. This One Forest Summit will be held in Libreville, Gabon. CIRAD has issued a position paper making several recommendations for the preservation and sustainable management of these treasure troves of biodiversity.
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