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The global status and trends of Payments for Ecosystem Services

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Women, income and poverty: Gendered access to resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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This article analyzes gendered income poverty trends in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on the complex societal shifts that emerged during the transition from apartheid. The authors highlight how these changes have affected women’s access to resources—improving it through increased employment opportunities and hindering it due to challenges like the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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

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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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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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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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REDD’ing Forest Conservation: The Philippine Predicament

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Indigenous exploitation and management of tropical forest resources: an evolutionary continuum in forest-people interactions

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The Restoration of Degraded Lands by Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples

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Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats

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