CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Brazil nut harvesting

Serapio Condori Daza, brazil nut harvester, shows the fruit from the cocos (called so, in Peru, for their resemblance to coconuts) Felicitas Ramirez Surco's concession, Madre de Dios, Peru.

CIFOR is working on a study examining the impact of selective logging on Brazil nut production - for the full story see: www.blog.cifor.org/16623/harvesting-both-timber-and-brazi...

Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR

For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)

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