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.

Oil, Roads, Settlers and Timber: Changing landscapes and livelihoods in Ecuador's Amazon

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, CIFOR researchers have been examining the country's thriving domestic timber market, trying to understand how smallholders and chainsaw millers relate it, and the links to the international timber trade. The study is available in Spanish here: http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/4290.html Photographs by Tomas Munita. This photo essay is part of a multimedia package on the Amazon rainforest. See more at blog.cifor.org/amazon

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