Author Archives: IFRIsnre
February 12th: Does Land Titling Stem Forest Damage? Native Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
February 12, 2013, 12:00-1:00pm, Room 1024 Dana Building Over the past twenty years, dozens of developing countries have decentralized forest governance, often by granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal title to land. During the same period however, forests …
Food and Forest Conference Online
The Yale University Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) is hosting its annual conference titled “Food and Forests: Cultivating Resilient Landscapes” from January 24 – 26, 2013.
Featured Reseacher- Peter Newton
Peter Newton is a postdoctoral research fellow with IFRI, based at the University of Michigan CRC since January 2012. He received his undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Cambridge, UK and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. both from the …
RRI Partners Meetings
The Rights and Resources Initiative recently held their global partners meetings in Washington, DC.
IFRI Researcher attends a conference about the “4Fs”
IFRI researcher recently attended a dialogue on Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forests (the ‘4Fs’), in Brazil and organized by The Forests Dialogue.
Governance of forest and agriculture landscapes
Cattle Certification and Reduced Deforestation
Twelfth RRI Dialogue on Forests Governance and Climate Change
The Twelfth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, organized in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, identified the major emerging threats to forests and took stock of proven strategies to reduce emissions. It assessed the potential for expanding and …
