Postcards from the Field: Lukolela Lullaby
A 'postcard' from Lukolela, a town 540 km up the Congo River from the capital city Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kate Evans made the trip to see firsthand how deforestation is affecting communities.
How do aid doctors work in world's most murderous nation?
?Honduras is probably the hardest place I've worked in because you can't predict what will happen," says MSF head of mission
One Hour Eighteen Minutes: a review
A review of a new play showing in London about the last year of Sergei Magnitsky's life
PHOTO BLOG: Colombian refugees build safer life in Ecuador
Since the early 2000s, Ecuador has officially recognised more than 56,000 Colombians as refugees
Writing and Reporting News, London, 5 -9 November, 2012: U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy Not Central to Election Outcome
. . . From the elections in the United States, to the Kurt Schork Awards in London and the build up to Remembrance Sunday there was actual news happening which helped ensure our colleagues from countries diverse as Egypt, Nepal and Swaziland worked in an inspiring collective atmosphere. . .
Reporting on women's issues course - journalists' thoughts
Last week journalists from 11 countries gathered in Barcelona, Spain, to take part in a training course on how to report on women's issues.
Forest communities in Cameroon cannot adapt to climate change alone
Rural communities in Cameroon rely heavily on forests for everything from their nutritional and medicinal needs to fuel for cooking and will be unable to adapt to climate change without significant outside help, a new study has found.
Certifying Vietnam's timber plantations would help smallholders profit from lucrative export market
Despite huge national investments in smallholder timber production in Vietnam ? which has a thriving furniture industry ? the area of certified forests in the country is vanishingly small.
Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon
Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company. When logging is conducted sustainably, research has shown it can actually help to protect forests from deforestation and conversion into other types of land use, like agriculture.
Cutting through: Formalising Cameroon's huge domestic timber market
58 year-old Dieudonn? Ngomo* wields his chainsaw with ease, expertly cutting a plank from the fallen tree at his feet. "I won't lie to you ? we do this in secret," he says. "But it is based on this that the whole country lives". CIFOR scientists have discovered that Cameroon's informal domestic timber market is as large as the legal export market.