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Making a Killing: Holding corporations to account for land and human rights violations

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February, 2019

A selection of nine short videos from InsightShare;which in October 2019 hosted a grassroots gathering in South Africa of African Indigenous activists representing 12 diverse communities from across the continent;who came together to discuss;strategise and skill up on issues of Indigenous cultures;rights and lands;and how to harness video for change. The nine videos are:

The power of forests

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Journal Articles & Books
February, 2019
Cameroon
Republic of Korea
Switzerland
United States of America
Philippines
Malaysia
Chile
Germany
China
Italy
Indonesia
Australia
Thailand
Congo
Argentina
India
Pakistan
Gabon
Brazil

This edition of Unasylva comes in the wake of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20,which, among other things, produced a document called The Future We Want.

Climate change for forest policy-makers

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Journal Articles & Books
February, 2019
Kenya
Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Philippines
Mauritania
Argentina
China
Italy
Indonesia
Ghana
Congo
South Sudan
India
Senegal
Brazil

The critical role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is now widely recognized. Forests contribute significantly to climate change mitigation through their carbon sink and carbon storage functions.

Soil carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from forests and other land use types in an African tropical montane region

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Journal Articles & Books
February, 2019

In the last 40 years, large areas of the Mau forest, the largest contiguous tropical montane forest in East Africa, have been cleared for agriculture. To date, there are no empirical data on how this land use change affects carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from soil respiration and soil methane (CH4) fluxes.

Analysis of High Temporal Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Trajectories

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Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Global

In this study, methods, originally developed to assess life course trajectories, are explored in order to evaluate land change through the analysis of sequences of land use/cover. Annual land cover maps which describe land use/land cover change for the 1985–2017 period for a large region in Northeast Brazil were analyzed.

Agroforestry Systems of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: Land Use for Biocultural Diversity Conservation

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Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Mexico
Northern America

The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico, is the semiarid region with the richest biodiversity of North America and was recently recognized as a UNESCO’s World Heritage site. Original agricultural practices remain to this day in agroforestry systems (AFS), which are expressions of high biocultural diversity.

Deforestation and Forest Degradation as an Environmental Behavior: Unpacking Realities Shaping Community Actions

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Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Kenya
Ethiopia

Deforestation and forest degradation (D&D) in the tropics have continued unabated and are posing serious threats to forests and the livelihoods of those who depend on forests and forest resources. Smallholder farmers are often implicated in scientific literature and policy documents as important agents of D&D.