Book launch: Rights Based Approaches: Exploring Issues and Opportunities for Conservation

What is a rights-based approach? “RBAs can be understood as integrating rights norms, standards and principles into policy, planning and implementation to help ensure that conservation practice respects and realises rights in all in

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Revitalizing UNFF:Critical Issues and Ways Forward

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REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation

Some definitions RED= Reducing emissions from (gross) deforestation: only changes from “forest” to “non-forest” land cover types are included, and details very much depend on the operational definition of “fo

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Taxonomy, population dynamics and utilisation of the rattan palms of the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa

Introduction to rattans: •Rattans are climbing palms belonging to the sub-family Calamoideae (characterised by presence of scaly pericarp on fruit; •650 species of rattan in Asia •22 species in Africa

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Rattan cultivation, processing and transformation: New technologies and recent advances in West and Central Africa

African Rattan Research Programme •“The development and promotion of African rattans: an ecological and socio-economic approach” •Funded by the Forestry Research Programme of the UK’s Department for International

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