Student thesis: Tropical deforestation in Sri Lanka - A Minor Field Study investigating the impact of small scale farmers

Sara Lindström, student at Department of Earth Science at University of Gothenburg, has written her student thesis about small scale farmers impact on the natural forest cover extent in Sri Lanka.

Focali Brief: Expanding Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry activities under the Clean Development Mechanism - Discussions within the United Nations Climate Negotiations

Focali Brief 2011:05 by Madelene Ostwald.

Agricultural Research for Development conference – Scales & Diversity

Conference
Sep 28, 2011 09:00 AM to Sep 29, 2011 05:00 PM.

Agricultural Research for Development is an annual interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder conference on agriculture, livestock and forest research in an international development context. Distinguished international guests will give key note presentations on pertinent research and/or developmental questions. Individual participants are invited to present their research/project in parallel sessions. This year´s conference will be held at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 28-29 September 2011.

Focali Report: REDD+ AND TENURE: A Review of the Latest Developments in Research, Implementation and Debate

Focali Report 2011:02 by Lisa westholm, Robin Biddulph, Ida Hellmark and Anders Ekbom.

Brief: Rehabilitating Indian wasteland - a role for afforestation

Focali Brief 2011:04 by Matilda Palm.

Brief: Making REDD+ work for the poor in Burkina Faso

Focali Brief 2011:03 by Lisa Westholm.

Prospects for REDD+ - Local Forest Management and Climate Change Mitigation in Burkina Faso

Focali Report 2011:01 by Lisa Westholm and Suvi Kokko.

Seminar: The Changing Wealth of Nations

Seminar
Apr 08, 2011 01:15 PM to Apr 08, 2011 02:15 PM.

"How we measure development will drive how we do development." This is the thesis of a new book by the World Bank measuring the change in comprehensive wealth for over 100 countries from 1995 to 2005.