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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.

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The fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007c) includes increased evidence that current climate change is to a large extent due to human activity and that it will profoundly alter the living conditions for all humans, flora, fauna, and ecosystems.

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