Since Since 2022, the PROMIRE project (Promoting Deforestation-Free Cocoa Production to Reduce Emissions) has enabled Côte d'Ivoire to contribute to the fight against deforestation and forest degradation. The project aims both to support the country in finalizing the development and operationalization of REDD+ tools and to implement direct actions at the jurisdictional level to reduce the impacts of cocoa production on the forest in three regions: La Mé, Agneby Tiassa, and Sud-Comoé. Cocoa production in Côte d'Ivoire is crucial for economic, social, and environmental reasons. Economically, Côte d'Ivoire is the world's leading exporter of cocoa. The sector employs almost a...

Huapi Island and the environmental problems for the Mapuche people At the center of Lake Ranco in the commune of Futrono, 900 km south of the capital, Santiago de Chile, is located this impressive 815 hectares of surface known as Huapi Island. This small island of impressive nature and beauty lays in a remote area in the south of the Andes, which is only reachable using the local ferry, the Epu Huapi, which means Two Islands in the local Mapuche Mapugundún language, and which makes this 50 minutes journey only 2 times a day. The island is home to around 150 families,...

Del 24 al 25 de abril en Lima, Perú, tuvo lugar el taller regional “Experiencias y avances frente a la implementación de las reglamentaciones de mercado sobre deforestación”.  Este evento fue liderado por los Ministerios de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego (MIDAGRI) y de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MICETUR) del Perú, con el apoyo técnico de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO).  El taller, organizado conjuntamente por ONU REDD, Acelerando el monitoreo innovador de los bosques (AIM4Forests) y Forest Data Partnership, contó con la participación de 66 representantes de diversas organizaciones de Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,...

From April 24-25 in Lima, Peru, the regional workshop "Experiences and Advances in the Implementation of Market Regulations on Deforestation" took place. This event was led by Peru's Ministries of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) and Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR), with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The workshop, jointly organized by UN REDD, Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) and the Forest Data Partnership included 66 representatives from various organizations in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Peru, as well as the European Union Delegation (EU), the British Embassy in Peru, German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Biodiversity Alliance-CIAT,...

Many stakeholders recognize the need to address concerns related to gender and forestry to ensure sustainable forest management and equitable benefit sharing. Such concerns may include the need to include women in forest-related governance and decision-making, the need to address gender-based violence in forest settings, and the need to promote women’s forest-based entrepreneurship, to name a few. There are often socio-economic, social, cultural, and political barriers faced by women within many developing countries. Explicit and deliberate action needs to be taken to ensure women, in addition to men, are equitably, actively, and meaningfully involved (UN-REDD, 2017). However, some actors are still...