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

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

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Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals

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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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Beyond Tenure: Rights-based Approaches to Peoples and Forests

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Carbon sequestration in Africa: The land tenure problem

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Research on afforestation and reforestation projects highlights how tropical forests can store carbon on a large scale. Africa offers vast areas of suitable land for carbon sequestration through these initiatives. However, the author argues that land tenure issues in Africa create an obstacle to achieving this potential.

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The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services

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The academic debate on how effectively Payments for Environmental Services (PES) achieve environmental and socioeconomic goals continues to grow. Researchers initially focused on defining the concept and documenting early field experiences. Over time, they shifted their attention to designing effective incentives, analyzing behavioral responses, conducting systematic reviews, and applying counterfactual-based impact evaluations to assess outcomes more rigorously.

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Opportunities for Integrating Social Science into Research on Dry Forest Restoration: A Mini-Review

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Researchers have well-documented the threats to seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs), including anthropogenic fires, climate change, and soil degradation. The widespread conversion of SDTFs to other land uses creates substantial opportunities for large-scale restoration and reforestation. While most research focuses on abiotic, environmental, and biophysical factors influencing restoration and secondary succession, researchers have largely overlooked incorporating social sciences or human dimensions into the restoration process, leaving a significant gap in the field.

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Committed to restoring tropical forests: an overview of Brazil's and Indonesia's restoration targets and policies

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Editorial: Mangroves in the Anthropocene: From local change to global challenge

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