Increasing habitat fragmentation and human population growth in Africa has resulted in an escalation in human-elephant conflict between small-scale farmers and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta Africana). This article tested the efficacy of a beehive fence design to keep elephants away from invading small-scale farms, as part of the 10-year Conservation...

The objective of this study is twofold. The first is to examine existing arrangements for sharing benefits and extract insights from existing community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) arrangements that involve sharing benefits, specifically insights regarding how benefits are determined, how beneficiaries are identified, and how the set-up is influencing the...

Forest certification can be a useful instrument for minimizing negative environmental and social impacts of logging and for maintaining ecosystem services. Certified timber generally allows access to regional and international markets at a price generally higher than what is obtained through trade of ‘normal’ timber products. In the specific case...

This video shows the UK experience with biomass energy and the long term objective to increase this type of energy, reducing the one coming from fossil fuels burning. This also includes new opportunity for farmers to grow crops for biomass use. The video also rises some questions of sustainability when biomass...

A range of tree species have been introduced into southern Africa (considered here to be South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) for a range of purposes. There are also cases of accidental introduction, i.e. the trees were introduced for no defined purpose, while other cases of introduction were a result of...

Globally, agriculture remains the most significant driver of global deforestation. Yet in Viet Nam, food security and forest cover have both increased significantly in the last 25 years thanks to economic and agricultural reforms as well as an increased emphasis on community-based forest management. As incomes have risen, forest cover...

Brazil is vulnerable to climate change due to its complex, biologically diverse ecosystems, especially the Brazilian Amazon, which covers an area that is roughly the size of Western Europe. The annual deforestation rate in Brazil’s Amazon plunged from nearly 11,000 square miles in 2004 to 1,700 square miles in 2012...

The video shows effects and benefits for landscape and biodiversity to have an untouched buffer zone of a few metres between waterways and felling sites.

This case study examines adaptation measures that have been implemented in the Sahel region since the 1980s, including farmer­?managed natural regeneration (FMNR). In Burkina Faso, efforts have been implemented to rehabilitate barren crusted land using contour bunds and improved planting pits. These simple techniques have served to increase the volume...

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,...