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15/02/2018 · News ItemDNA Detective Dogs Saving Pangolins
Sniffing her way through the forests of Nepal and Vietnam, Athena, an Australian Shepherd mix, and her trainer are working to save the world's most-trafficked mammal—the pangolin. More -
20/10/2017 · News ItemSymposium Features USAID Research Partnerships on Forests and Watersheds to Solve Complex Challenges to Food Security, Nutrition and Health
A symposium held at the Ronald Reagan Building on October 4 highlighted research that demonstrates linkages between the status of watersheds and forests and health and nutrition outcomes. More
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20/10/2016 · EventCommunity of Practice (COP) roundtable on anti-corruption
We will be holding a special "mini" Community of Practice (COP) roundtable on anti-corruption. More -
19/09/2016 · EventABCG Event: Using USAID's Applied Political Economy Assessment Framework to Improve Conservation Outcomes
Biodiversity conservation in the context of extractives is associated with the collapse of resource regimes, which occurs as a result of increased pressures on resources from new practices or people. It also can be credited to the political and economic… More
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08/06/2018 · FileHow Does Developing Enforcement Capacity Reduce Wildlife Crime?
"How Does Developing Enforcement Capacity Reduce Wildlife Crime?" summarizes findings from the literature around four key assumptions about capacity building for enforcement and prosecution. Using the experiences and evidence summarized in this brief, program designers and implementing partners should be… More -
11/05/2018 · FileThe transboundary displacement of deforestation under REDD+: Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region
The fragmentary adoption of REDD+ across forest nations leaves room for the displacement of deforestation from early-adopters and countries with more rigorous carbon-related regulatory regimes to late-adopters of REDD+. While this displacement is expected to be substantial, our empirical understanding… More -
10/05/2018 · FileZOOMING IN: COMPANIES, COMMODITIES, & TRACEABILITY COMMITMENTS THAT COUNT, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
“Zooming In” presents a new analysis by Forest Trends’ Supply Change Initiative and Ceres about how companies that are committed to addressing commodity-driven deforestation are tracing supplies to their origin—be it factory, farm, field, or forest—so they can determine the… More -
01/05/2018 · FileCompiled - CWT Synthesis and Cases
USAID launched a global case study compilation to collect lessons on an urgent global conservation challenge: how to build capacity for enforcement and prosecution to combat wildlife trafficking. Forty-eight entries were received, and 12 of these were selected for publication… More
VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Power and Potential: Governments Fail to Protect Indigenous and Rural Women's Land Rights
A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women's Rights to Community Forests
Equal rights and opportunities for women are not only matters of justice and dignity. When women and girls have equal rights in
law and practice, their communities and countries also benefit. Indigenous and rural women make up more than half of the 2.5 billion people
who customarily own and use the world’s community lands, yet they have been largely absent from discussions of women’s property rights and broader development agendas.
A new analysis from RRI provides an unprecedented assessment of 80 legal frameworks regulating indigenous and rural women’s
community forest rights in 30 developing countries comprising 78 percent of the developing world’s forests. .
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