In Indonesia, the role-playing game COmMoDO – short for COMpanion MOdelling in InDOnesia was created by Dr. Nur Hasanah for her PhD– depicts a landscape in East Kalimantan with a mosaic of forests, oil palm plantations and rice fields along a river. It aims to increase understanding around the factors that influence local communities’ decisions on their land and livelihoods, in particular labor allocation, financial capital, as well as socio-economic backgrounds and perceptions around ecosystem services. The game has also provided insights on how local communities interact among themselves and with oil palm companies, and how these interactions also influence decisions on their livelihoods. We conducted 12 game sessions with local communities in Kutai Kartanegara (East Kalimantan) and 2 with local government; To check the this research , please take a look Nur Hashanah’s PhD thesis.

Lessons learned from Guyana’s forest monitoring system and the country’s experience as an early adopter of REDD+.

Guests: Hans Sukhdeo, a project officer at Guyana Forestry Commission and Martin Herold, senior associate at CIFOR-ICRAF and professor of geoinformation science and remote sensing at Wageningen University.

Industri mebel merupakan salah satu penyumbang devisa terbesar di Indonesia. Di tahun 2019, industri mebel telah menyumbang 1,7 miliar dolar AS atau sekitar 25 triliun rupiah bagi devisa negara. Bersama Peneliti CIFOR-ICRAF, Ahmad Dermawan dan Ketua Asosiasi Pengrajin Kayu Jepara, Achmad Zainudin, mari dengarkan perbincangan kami tentang pentingnya sertifikasi legalitas kayu dalam industri mebel, terutama bagi usaha mikro kecil menengah untuk menembus pasar global.

We live on it, we grow food in it, it is time to stop taking soils for granted

Explore the hidden world underfoot with Leigh Ann Winowiecki, leader of soil and land health research and Rupesh Bhomia, wetland bio-geochemist at CIFOR-ICRAF.

Listen to ideas and analysis exchanged by policy experts, academia and private sector representatives at GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World-One Health, toward improved, just and sustainable landscapes management.

Dietary change is occurring in urban and rural communities all over the world. Listen to CIFOR-ICRAF scientists Stepha McMullin and Mulia Nurhasan as they highlight the need to collaborate with local communities to shift to a healthier diet.

Through local knowledge and tradition, Indigenous communities around the world have played a vital role in protecting the Earth for millennia. Listen to Let’s Talk Trees to find out more.

This episode celebrates mangroves’ “protective power” against hurricanes and storm surges. They protect societies against extreme climate events and sea level rise, buffering storm surges and ocean waves that reach the coastline. But what are the limits of their resilience?

Manglares, ecosistemas anfibios, de importancia crítica para los esfuerzos de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático se pierden cada día a causa del hombre y los eventos extremos. Tres científicos: Rosa Román de CIFOR, Miguel Cifuentes de CATIE y Jorge Herrera de CINVESTAD responden diez preguntas que aclaran la situación de los manglares en la región y el mundo, sus desafíos y oportunidades.

The carbon on your plate: mangrove and aquaculture

Shoring up mangrove protection amid shrimp production

CIFOR Principal Scientist Daniel Murdiyarso and Matt McLuckie, director of Investor Relations at Planet Tracker explore the longstanding clash between mangrove conservation efforts and the aquaculture industry. A recent report states that mangrove conservation benefits the aquaculture industry value chain as well as benefiting the environmental health of the planet.