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Growing Forests, Growing Economies: Scaling Private Investment in Latin American Reforestation
Scaling reforestation across Latin America and the Caribbean is fundamentally an investment challenge, not a tree-planting one.
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Policy brief: Reforestation starts in the nursery – Why stronger native tree nurseries matter for credible restoration
Restoration targets in East Africa are unlikely to be met credibly without a stronger supply of high-quality native tree seedlings.
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Strengthening nature-positive investment in the Eastern Partnership
We were pleased to join the World Bank at a regional workshop focused on advancing the financing of sustainable natural resource management across the Eastern Partnership, bringing together policymakers, experts and partners.
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Financing nature: spotlight on the Eastern Partnership
How can forests deliver more than timber – and how can countries finance the ecosystem services they provide?
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Two native tree nurseries launched in Uganda and Kenya
We are delighted to celebrate the official launch of two modern native tree nurseries in Uganda and Kenya through the RTRP-Seed project, supported by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Government.
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Sustainable forest management in Guatemala
What does sustainable forest management look like in practice today? It looks like local expertise and the right technology coming together.
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Agroforestry Extension Modules – Promotion of Agroforestry in Katete District, Eastern Province (Zambia)
This April 2025 manual presents the “Promotion of Agroforestry” project implemented in Katete District, Eastern Province, Zambia, under a bilateral cooperation agreement between Zambia’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Germany’s BMEL, in partnership with unique land use GmbH and Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO).
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Agrifood systems in the voluntary carbon market: Status and prospects
This report constitutes the first global assessment of the agrifood sector in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), which is where carbon credits are issued, bought and sold in the private sector.
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Boosting Livestock Sector Growth with Low Emissions : A Strategic Approach in Eastern and Southern Africa – Regional Brief
Livestock plays a critical economic and social role both globally and in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The livestock sector encompasses a variety of species, with cattle being the most prominent in the region.
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Smart Forests: Leveraging AI-Remote Sensing to Combat Forest Degradation and Carbon Loss in Ethiopian Coffee Landscapes
Michelle Kalamandeen, Katja Weyhermüller and Johannes Pirker
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Native Seedling Nursery Manual
The native tree seedling manual is based on the CFR project’s best-practice nursery for producing native seedlings for the restoration of sandy areas.
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Turning Harm Into Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural subsidies that destroy forests and non-forest natural ecosystems | Executive Summary & Policy Recommendations
Signe Nelgen, Simon Charré, unique land use GmbH; Pablo Pacheco, WWF
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Nationwide remote sensing framework for forest resource assessment in war-affected Ukraine
Viktor Myroniuk, Axel Weinreich, Vincent von Dosky, Viktor Melnychenko, Andrii Shamrai, Maksym Matsala, Matthew J. Gregory, David M. Bell, Raymond Davis
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Potentials for enhanced contributions of wood valuechains to the nationaleconomy in Viet Nam
The report discusses the economic potential of upgrading wood value chains in Viet Nam.
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Ukraine’s wood industry: navigating current challenges and forging a path to growth in a recovery scenario
The WoodforWork project aimed to analyze employment dynamics within forest and wood value chains.
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Farmers’ Organizations as Change Agents for the Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems
Jana Rauch
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Agroforestry training brochures – a guide for small scale farmers in South-East Africa
In the context of our BMEL funded long term project in Zambia, we have elaborated several training components/brochures. So far, the project has elaborated the following brochures in English and Nyanja.
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Guidebook for Project developers
Best practice for Agricultural carbon project development targeting Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM)
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Restoration of Degraded Coastal Forests in Vietnam’s North Central Coast
Till Pistorius, Ho Dac Thai Hoang, Tai Tien Dinh, Le Thai Hung, Maximilian Roth & Tran Khuong Duy
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Landscape Restoration Opportunitiesin the Naryn River Basin, the Kyrgyz Republic : Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) Report
Wold Bank
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Funding Options for Ecosystem Restoration in Central America and Africa
Jacinto Coello, Laura Frey
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Producción de semillas de árboles nativos
Andrea Braun et al.
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Rwanda Value Chain and Regulatory Assessment Fertilizer and Pesticides
Lincoln Davis, Anke Reichhuber
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Compensating farmers for ecosystem services
Eva Wollenberg, Timm Tennigkeit, Dhanush Dinesh, Sophia Baumert, Felicitas Röhrig, Lisa Kirfel-Rühle, Leanne Zeppenfeldt
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Unique land use leads in drought and adaptation analytics
Today, roughly two-thirds of Europe is experiencing drought warnings, in what is likely the region’s worst water scarcity event in five centuries.
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Time management governs climate resilience and productivity in the coupled rice–wheat cropping systems of eastern India
, Balwinder-Singh, Keil, A. et al.
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Policy brief – Development of case studies to enhance the employment situation in Kenya’s forestry and wood sector
Veronica Alonso, Paul Jacovelli
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Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts
Vijesh V. Krishna, Alwin Keil, Meha Jain, Weiqi Zhou, Monish Jose, Subash Surendran-Padmaja, Luis Barba-Escoto, Balwinder-Singh, M. L. Jat and Olaf Erenstein
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Aligning improved livelihoods of coffee farmers and forest conservation in Ethiopia’s southwest highlands
Grit Techel
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Digital solutions for small-scale farming: Fostering climate resilient and low carbon agrifood systems
A focus brief on alignment between digital technology providers and small-scale farming
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Waldwärts Rhein-Wied
In vielen Regionen von Rheinland-Pfalz erschwert die extreme Kleinteiligkeit des Waldbesitzes eine nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung und Entwicklung der Bestände.
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Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions
Farm management information systems (FMIS) or so called farm decision support services (FDSS) promise valuable support for farmers in the digital age based on areas such as artificial intelligence, big data and internet of things.
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Our new corporate design
Unique presents itself in new splendor. UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH becomes unique land use GmbH.
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What lies ahead for the tropical timber sector?
A new ITTO report analyzes the supply of and demand for tropical timber to 2050 and its contributions to a sustainable economy
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Of milk and mobiles: Assessing the potential of cellphone applications to reduce cattle milk yield gaps in Africa using a case study
by Christian Bateki, Thomas Daum, Ana Salvatierra-Rojas, Joachim Müller, Regina Birner, Uta Dickhoefer
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Land an natural resources degradation in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, Kenya
Land degradation is severe in Kenya due to deforestation and land use cover change (LUCC) which replaces high value biomes with low-value biomes.
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The power of digitalization: Transforming agrifood systems to enhance climate benefits
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