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This briefing paper explores the challenges and opportunities to address deforestation among palm oil smallholders in Indonesia, with a particular focus on independent smallholders.

This guide serves to assist stakeholders in monitoring tree-based restoration, with a focus on trees outside forests, such as trees on agricultural and pastoral landscapes and within cities and towns—using a Collect Earth mapathon approach.

This report seeks to advance women’s tenure rights in collectively held lands by documenting promising practices and approaches gleaned from communities where women have recognized and secure rights. World Resources Institute (WRI) partnered with Resource Equity and organizations in five countries to identify and conduct case studies of five communities that have relatively gender-equitable land tenure systems.

This report summarises the findings from a global survey on the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on wood value chains and recovery measures from the forest sector.

There is no solution to the growing climate and nature crisis the world faces without a solution to deforestation. Currently, two thirds of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion to produce commodities such as soy, palm oil, timber, and beef. Over the last decade leading companies, financial institutions and governments took on ambitious commitments to address deforestation in their supply chains and financing by 2020. But by the start of 2020 – the year the problem was to have been all but resolved – even the leaders have fallen well short of their targets, and tropical primary forest loss had increased by 44% since the signing of the landmark New York Declaration on Forests, announced by the Secretary General at the UN General Assembly in 2014.