Category: Stories

A cost-effective solution with impressive returns The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact, a multi-stakeholder restoration movement in Brazil, is on track to naturally regenerate 1.5 million hectares of once deforested land — half-a-million more than was originally pledged by the coalition under the Bonn Challenge – by 2020. If these forests survive until 2023 without being re-cut, the […]

CIFOR scientist Manuel Guariguata explains what natural regeneration is, when it is a good option to advance landscapes restoration goals and some challenges and opportunities for its inclusion in restoration projects and commitments.

Pineapples on peatland: A win-win solution for farmers and the environment through paludiculture and action research Pineapples on peatland? The idea seems farfetched, especially as a way to restore degraded peat. But it’s already a reality in Dompas, an Indonesian village 200km west of Singapore across the Malacca Strait on the island of Sumatra. For […]

In parts 1 and 2, we heard of the vicious circle of poverty, environmental degradation and monocultural maize production and how the introduction of a farming system that combined trees, crops, grasses and livestock changed lives for the better. In Part 3, we hear how they changed. Giang Thi Hoa, the 21 year-old woman from […]

In Part 1, we heard of the vicious circle of poverty, environmental degradation and monocultural maize production leading to poor farmers beng unable to afford higher education for all their children. In Part 2, we learn how the introduction of a farming system that combined trees, crops, grasses and livestock changed lives for the better. […]

The story of Giang Thi Hoa in Viet Nam shows how a young woman’s dream of higher education comes true through the surprising avenue of growing trees, crops and livestock together on her family’s degraded land. With the pallid sun high in the clouds of the mountains of Viet Nam’s northwestern Dien Bien Province, Giang […]