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How Indigenous Technology Can Drive New Discoveries In

WEBForest Trends’ Beto Borges, Director of our Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative, talks to Dr. Steve King, EVP Sustainable Supply, Ethnobotanical …

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Forest Trends and the Arbor Day Foundation Partner to Plant One …

WEBRELEASE Communities Forests Apr 10, 2020. The direct relationship between ecosystem health and our own has perhaps never been this salient. An …

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The Living Pharmacy Project

WEBForest Trends has been working with Yawanawa and Suruí indigenous communities since 2014 to establish “Living Pharmacies.”. By building medicinal plant …

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Close to $25 Billion Spent to Secure Green

WEBGovernments, water utilities, companies, and communities around the world paid nearly US$25 billion (B) in 2015 for nature-based solutions to secure reliable …

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Open Letter to the 117th Congress and Biden-Harris …

WEBThe undersigned organizations urge Congress and the Biden-Harris administration to swiftly enact the Fostering Overseas Rule of Law and Environmentally …

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COVID-19 Impacts: Conversations on the past, present, and future

WEBBased on interviews carried out remotely with young indigenous women from Central and South America. The full list of participant names and bios appear below. …

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A Green Gigaton of Ambitions: Forest Solutions to the Climate

WEBHow a novel approach to public-private forest investments can finally turn the tide on deforestation - a conversation between corporate and political decision-makers A …

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Wildfire and Forests Innovation Summit

WEBWildfire and Forests Innovation Summit. November 1-2, 2023 The Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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Saving Traditions, Saving Lives, One Plant at a Time

WEBDeep in western Brazil's Amazon rainforest, one man is saving lives and recovering traditional knowledge by building a "living pharmacy" of medicinal plants

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Coronavirus: How Did We Get Here

WEBBiodiversity Forests Mar 26, 2020 Michael Jenkins and Lyndon Haviland, Chairperson, Foundation Board at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and …

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New Opportunities for Tackling the Wildfire Crisis

WEBOn November 1st and 2nd, 2023, Forest Trends convened the Wildfire and Forests Innovation Summit in Denver, Colorado together with co-hosts and sponsors the USDA …

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The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Update on Our Work

WEBWe are preparing for social distancing measures to be widespread and for strong limits on travel until at least June 2020 and possibly as long as a year. This has …

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Amazonian Tribe Shares the Secret of Treating Snake Bites

WEBThe Amazonian plant that recently saved two lives. (Photo: Tashka Yawanawa) But the Yawanawa, a tribe of 1,250 people living at the heart of the Brazilian …

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Charting New Waters

WEBGLOBAL WATER INSECURITY: 80 percent of the world’s population currently faces water insecurity. SOURCE: CJ Vorosmarty et al. Nature 467, 555-561 (2010) doi:10. …

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Environmental and Social Safeguards:

WEB1 . Environmental and Social Safeguards: Review and Monitoring Guidelines for Forest Trends Projects . Guidelines Forest Trends has established these nsure that any …

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Chocolate Companies are Changing to Make Cocoa Ethical

WEBMars, one of the largest manufacturers of chocolate products in the world, sources around 400,000 metric tons of cocoa annually, or about 8% of the cocoa …

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Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change

WEB1 Eecutive Summary G iven that effective climate change policy must balance the costs of action and the likely economic damages from inaction, the views of economists about …

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Fair Trade USA Guidelines for the Implementation and …

WEB5 of 187 Environmental Stewardship: Smallholders are responsible for caring for the earth by developing environmental monitoring systems, limiting the use of agrochemicals and …

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DEVELOPING DIMENSION

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Vietnamese imports of high-risk timber

WEBVietnam’s imports of logs and sawnwood. In 2020, Vietnam imported 2.54 million cubic meters (m3) of sawn timber and 2.17 million m3 of logs for a total of 5.79 million m3 of …

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