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Mangroves for the Future, FAO Launch Regional Sustainable Financing Project

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

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.

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

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

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.

FAO Completes World’s First Global Assessment of Drylands Forests

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

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

South Dakota Project Reveals Benefits of Healthy Soils

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

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.

Escalating Costs of Global Warming All Too Evident as UN Climate Treaty Talks Open

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 2 Comments

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.

Big Benefits to Rural Poor from Small-Scale Bioenergy Projects

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

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.

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