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Nature-Based Transformative Adaptation: a practical handbook

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INTEGRATING GREEN AND GRAY: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

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Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions

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IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions

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The use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America

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Amidst the impacts of climate change in agricultural sector, there is an increasing number of smallholder farmers across the different landscapes of Central America engaged in sustainable, Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices

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Forest plantations and climate change discourses: New powers of ‘green’ grabbing in Cambodia

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Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania

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Pitfalls of tree planting show why we need people-centered natural climate solutions

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Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in rural India

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Afforestation and reforestation programs in South and South East Asia under the Clean Development Mechanism: Trends and development opportunities

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Anything but a story foretold: multiple politics of resistance to the agrarian extractivist project in Guatemala

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Why do foresters plant trees? Testing theories of bureaucratic decision-making in central India

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Ecologies of the colonial present: Pathological forestry from the taux de boisement to civilized plantations

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A systematic review of the socio-economic impacts of large-scale tree plantations, worldwide

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Large-scale tree plantations can provide raw material for industries and support climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. However, they can have positive and negative ecological and socioeconomic impacts. This paper presents the findings on a systematic review of literature on the socioeconomic impacts of large-scale tree plantations.

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Potential for low-cost carbon removal through tropical reforestation

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Compensatory Afforestation in Odisha, India: A political ecology of forest restoration

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Understanding the value and limitations of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

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Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests

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Tree climbing plants such as lianas are known to inhibit forest recovery by outcompeting trees after disturbances. The removal of climbers is recognized as a viable forest restoration management practice, however no best practices are established yet due to lack of research repetition and synthesis.

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Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development

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Bees are the most dominant group of pollinators and they may hold a key to achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They have a great potential for promoting agricultural success, providing people with crop pollination services. However bee populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change. Knowing the extent to which bees contribute to SDGs  and identifying their critical roles within SDGs is important for conservation targeting.

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Climate-Smart Conservation Agriculture, Farm Values and Tenure Security: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Congo Basin

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The Congo Basin forest houses a high amount of biodiversity and is an important area to conserve in light of climate change. This region is also important for agriculture and local livelihoods, though current practices are degrading the forest. Certain policy issues surrounding land tenure and investments may be hindering climate smart agriculture.

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