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Rural Women, Poverty and Natural Resources: Sustenance, Sustainability and Struggle for Change

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Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti

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Caracterización estructural y florística de un bosque secundario enriquecido de 15 años en la Región Tropical Húmeda de Costa Rica

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El estudio evalúa un bosque secundario enriquecido de 15 años en Costa Rica, originado en un pastizal abandonado. Los bosques secundarios son ecosistemas formados tras la eliminación de la cobertura primaria y tienen potencial económico, ambiental y de conservación de biodiversidad. Este caso analiza cómo la regeneración natural combinada con enriquecimiento puede mejorar su estructura y composición.

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The tree planting and protecting culture of cattle ranchers and small-scale agriculturalists in rural Panama: Opportunities for reforestation and land restoration

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Uso del efecto de borde de la vegetación para la restauración ecológica del bosque tropical

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El artículo aborda la fragmentación de hábitats causada por la deforestación, lo que genera cambios en los procesos ecológicos, específicamente el efecto de borde. Este efecto se caracteriza por la generación de microclimas variables y condiciones dinámicas del suelo en la interfase entre el bosque nativo y la vegetación adyacente inducida. A nivel global, los bosques tropicales han sufrido una deforestación considerable, impactando negativamente la biodiversidad y los ciclos ecológicos. 

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Evaluating alder-endophyte (Alnus acuminata-Frankia-Mycorrhizae) interactions

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Agrosilvopastoral Systems: A Practical Approach Toward Sustainable Agriculture

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Reforesting Bare Hills in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Program

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Forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: A decade later

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Livelihoods, Forests, and Conservation in Developing Countries: An Overview

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Poverty is a huge challenge, with 2.8 billion of the world’s 6 billion people living on less than $2 a day. The paper highlights the alarming extent of poverty in developing countries and addresses the rapid deforestation, which compromises ecological integrity and exacerbates social inequities. The authors focus on exploring whether poverty alleviation and forest conservation can be aligned as complementary rather than conflicting objectives.

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Foresters' beliefs about farmers: a priority for social science research in social forestry

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The contradiction of the sustainable development goals: Growth versus ecology on a finite planet

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Forest carbon offsets and carbon emissions trading: Problems of contracting

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Cascading effects of contemporaneous defaunation on tropical forest communities

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Using Janzen–Connell to predict the consequences of defaunation and other disturbances of tropical forests

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Defaunation of Large-Bodied Frugivores Reduces Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest of Southeast Asia

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Seed dispersal strategies and the threat of defaunation in a Congo forest

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Quantifying the Impacts of Defaunation on Natural Forest Regeneration in a Global Meta-Analysis

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The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes

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The Social Life of Forest Carbon: Property and Politics in the Production of a New Commodity

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