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Plantation associant plusieurs espèces d’arbres de la Mata Atlântica dans l’État de São Paulo, au Brésil. © J. Guillemot, Cirad

Science at work 1 February 2021

Planted forests: there is strength in numbers of species in the face of climate change

For CIRAD, fighting forest and land degradation in the Sahel necessarily means involving local people and taking account of their needs © R. Belmin, CIRAD

Call to action 28 January 2021

Great Green Wall: land degradation in the Sahel calls for targeted, concerted responses

Whereas Brazil's Para state saw a 25% increase in deforestation in 2020, the municipality of Paragominas, in the heart of the state, reported the lowest deforestation figures in its history. CIRAD and its partners are working there to reconcile productive agriculture and forest conservation policies © R. Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD

Science at work 3 December 2020

In the Amazon, better territorial management and farming practices mean forests can reconquer landscapes

Paragominas, in Brazil, is one of the TerrAmaz project’s five pilot sites © R. Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD

Institutional news 10 September 2020

TerrAmaz: a new partnership to reconcile the fight against deforestation with development in the Amazon

Forest carbon stocks in Central Africa estimated based on data from management inventories conducted in forest concessions. The quantity of forest carbon is represented on a scale from green (the least carbon), to yellow and then red (the most carbon). © Ploton, P., Mortier, F., Barbier, N. et al. A map of African humid tropical forest aboveground biomass derived from management inventories. Sci Data 7, 221 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0561-0

Results & impact 8 September 2020

CoFor-AGB: an exceptional dataset to study carbon stocks in dense rainforests in Africa

In Brazzaville, it was a game that served to unlock talks on indicators and rules for the management of Intact Forest Landscapes in Forest Stewardship Council-certified concessions © C. Garcia, CIRAD

Call to action 25 May 2020

Why are current policies to combat deforestation doomed to failure?

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