This Microsoft Excel-based tool can be used to analyze cost benefits of buffers compared to traditional crops.

With climate change impacts already felt in the world’s drylands, there is an urgent need for action, at various scales and initiated by different stakeholders, to ensure the sustainability of food production and livelihoods in these regions in the coming decades. There is also the need to rapidly establish baselines,...

This e-sourcebook provides a comprehensive understanding of the global tropical bushmeat issues. It contains seven sections wich synthesize available global scientific knowledge on bushmeat issues relating to conservation, local livelihoods, human health, governance, climate change, extractives industries and sustainable management. In addition, it provides reference for further reading and the...

This tool aims to share knowledge on bushmeat harvesting, marketing and consumption across Latin America, Africa and Asia. It does so by providing an open-access database of bushmeat-related research in tropical forests with more than 700 citations, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, technical papers, reports and conference...

This handbooks is designed as a national-level diagnostic tool aimed to facilitate the rapid assessment by multiple stakeholders and beneficiaries of the impacts on the livelihoods of poor rural communities of implementing CITES regulations. In addition, it offers ways to identify mitigation or adaptation strategies to address the impacts of...

This website section under CIFOR's website is dedicated to selected publications on C&I, including guidelines for developing C&I for sustainable forest management, templates, assessment tools, etc.

CAPRA (Computer Assisted Pest Risk Analysis) is a computer software which has been developed by the EPPO Secretariat in the framework of the European Union 7th framework program protect PRATIQUE (Grant agreement No 212 459) and with the support of the EPPO Panels. This software aims to assist pest risk...

COMET-Farm is a whole farm and ranch carbon and greenhouse gas accounting system. The tool guides you through describing your farm and ranch management practices including alternative future management scenarios. Once complete, a report is generated comparing the carbon changes and greenhouse gas emissions between your current management practices and future scenarios....

The Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods (CRiSTAL) is designed to help project planners and managers integrate climate-change adaptation and risk reduction into community-level projects. CRiSTAL seeks to systematically assess the impacts of a project on some of the local determinants of vulnerability and exposure, so that project...

Forests, which have a great potential source of income in developing countries, can and often do provide badly needed employment opportunities for rural people. In the recent past, and even today, tractor skidding was the logging technique mostly used in tropical mechanized logging. However, as forest development moves up to...