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Potential impacts of COVID-19 on tropical forest recovery

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The ecology and management of the Miombo woodlands for sustainable livelihoods in southern Africa: the case for non-timber forest products

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Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration Enhances Rural Livelihoods in Dryland West Africa

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How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

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Many countries pledged large pieces of land for Forest Landscape Restoration to the Bonn challenge and the UNFCCC Paris Accords. The highest pledges came from the global South. Two countries have met their Bonn challenge so far. Some countries are facing challenges including deficit of the land committed, and there are competing land uses between FLR agricultural land.

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Could 2021–2030 be the decade to couple new human values with ecological restoration? Valuable insights and actions are emerging from the Colombian Amazon

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Balancing land sharing and sparing approaches to promote forest and landscape restoration in agricultural landscapes: Land approaches for forest landscape restoration

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The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

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Showing and Telling: Australian Land Rights and Material Moralities

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In Kowanyama, Queensland, Aboriginal groups have property rights to several thousand square miles which are opposed by groups such as local pastoralists and the National Parks service. This paper explores the processes through which one group, the Kunjen community, asserts its moral and political claims over the disputed area through stories and material artefacts.

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The tragedy of the commons

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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

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Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research

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

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Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impact

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There has been a global increase in private sector investments towards activities plantations for clean fuel or climate change mitigation that are justified on the basis of their environmentally beneficial outcomes. This paper examines the discourses and mechanisms that enable the greater privatization of land and other resources using green development as a justification.

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Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below'

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While several research studies have examined the processes surrounding rural land transformation(s), and, in particular, the accumulation of public land by private entities, there are few studies that examine the responses of locally impacted people to these processes. This paper introduces a set of articles which discuss the varied reactions that local people have to the acquisition of public land and the ways in which they are formed and expressed.

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Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India: Viability, livelihood trade-offs, and latent conflict

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

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Oil palm expansion without enclosure: smallholders and environmental narratives

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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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Conservation, green/blue grabbing, and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania

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