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Mangroves for the Future, FAO Launch Regional Sustainable Financing Project

Andrew Burger December 21, 2016

With field projects under way in South and Southeast Asia, the MFF-FAO program aims to develop a low-cost mechanism for mangrove conservation and sustainable development to supplement the sale of carbon credits.Read More

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Mexico’s First Wood Fiberboard Plant Highlights Controversy Over UN FAO

Andrew Burger September 27, 2016

Drawing on local eucalyptus plantation it owns, Proteak Uno's new medium density fiber board plant highlights the ongoing controversy revolving around industrial forestry and its contributions to achieving key national and international environmental, climate change and sustainable development goals.Read More

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FAO Completes World’s First Global Assessment of Drylands Forests

Andrew Burger July 19, 2016

Using free online GIS and open source software, more than 200 FAO researchers completed the groundbreaking study in less than a year.Read More

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South Dakota Project Reveals Benefits of Healthy Soils

Andrew Burger February 3, 2015

With 2015 the International Year of Soils, agriculture scientists using no-till methods including planting crop cover that enhanced and conserved soil also retained much more water and raised crop yields substantially.Read More

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Escalating Costs of Global Warming All Too Evident as UN

Andrew Burger November 29, 2011

Evidence of global warming, and its escalating costs, continues to mount as some 15,000 delegates attended the opening of the UNFCCC's COP 17 climate change conference in Durban, South Africa yesterday. Nature seemed to weigh in, buffeting the coastal Indian Ocean city with an unseasonable torrential rain. Read More

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Big Benefits to Rural Poor from Small-Scale Bioenergy Projects

Andrew Burger April 15, 2009

Appropriately designed and carried out, small-scale bioenergy projects are resulting in various and numerous social and environmental benefits in poor, rural communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to an FAO/UK Dept. of International Development report.Read More