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Can REDD+ Drive
Change In The DR Congo?
After decades of war, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is struggling to get back on its feet. A new study ...
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Congo Basin Forest Fund
Steps Up For REDD+ Piloting In DRC
Developed countries have pledged billions to get REDD up and running around the world, but very little of that has resulted ...
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REDD+ Financing Efforts
Leave Pilot Projects In Limbo
Ghanaian businessman John Addaquay believes REDD+ can jump-start sustainable agriculture across central Ghana, and scores of experts agree. Private investors, however, ...
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Kenyan Farmers Boost Yields With
Payments For Watershed Services
For two years now, flower growers along the shore of Kenya’s Lake Naivasha have been paying farmers in the hills 40 ...
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PWS In Kenya: How WWF And CARE
Found Common Ground In High Hills
Subsistence farmers in the hills above Kenya’s Lake Naivasha face an uncertain future, and climate-change has only made it worse. Here’s ...
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Kenyan Flower-Growers Use Watershed Payments To Save Their Lake And Their Livelihoods
Flower growers in Kenya’s Rift Valley have gradually reduced their runoff to keep their water clean, but subsistence farmers high in ...
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Tying The Knot:
Buyers And Sellers In Kenyan PWS
Entering into a payments for watershed services program is more akin to getting married than it is to buying a normal ...
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Tanzanian Water Utility
Taps PWS To Keep Water Flowing
In 2010, a Tanzanian water utility became the first investor in a Payments for Watershed Services program designed to promote sustainable ...
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Linking Smallholders to Modern Markets
Picking up flowers at the supermarket is an easy task for the average consumer, but the journey that those flowers take ...
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Valuing the Arc: Five-Year Experiment Draws to a Close
The downward flow of water from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa generates up to half of Tanzania's power and provides ...
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Can Namibia Balance Mining and Nature?
Humans have impacted the Namib for millennia, but only now are their activities impacting ecosystems on a large scale.  That's why ...
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Ghana Builds REDD Regulatory Regime
Forest carbon projects are only as good as the legal system in which they reside.  Even voluntary carbon projects can only ...
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Kenyans Soft-Launch New Carbon Exchange
If carbon finance is to deliver environmental benefits in Africa, it needs a clear and transparent environment in which to operate.  ...
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Zambians Building Carbon Exchange – From the Ground up
Carbon finance can help rural Africans establish sustainable ways of doing business, and several efforts are underway to build carbon ...
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Saving Trees in the Congo Basin: is REDD a Solution or a Quagmire?
The Congo Basin is rich in forests and poor in cash, which makes it hard to resist offers of easy money ...
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Timber Turmoil Offers Lessons for REDD in Cameroon
Cameroon says it shares the money it earns from timber fees with local communities, but a study by the Center for ...
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First-Ever African Soil-Carbon Deal Signed at Hague Investment Fair
Small-holder farmers in Kenya are changing their farming practices and earning carbon credits. This is a result of the first ...
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Dutch Government Invests in African Carbon Fund
Dutch minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade Henk Bleker has signed a financial commitment with the investment fund Food 4 ...
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Biodiversity Boosters Hope to Leverage REDD Momentum at Nairobi Meeting
The UN has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, but the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) remains the poor ...
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Odigha Odigha: Speaking Truth to Power
Part businessman, part politician, and all activist: Nigeria's Odigha Odigha has managed to slow deforestation in his native Cross River State ...
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