CIFOR-ICRAF Forests News

In 2026, as countries continue to implement their forest commitments, turning pledges into action often slows down where ministries, sectors, and mandates are not aligned. Across regions, recent insights point to a shared challenge: ambition is rarely...

Healthy soils are the quiet lifeblood of a healthy landscape. They hold water through dry spells, recycle and retain nutrients, and keep farms productive – helping to protect surrounding forests from encroachment.
In the Yangambi Engagement Landscape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), soils underpin a growing network of activities: agroforestry, community farming, sustainable woodfuel and biomass electricity systems, livestock production, vegetables...

Rangelands, or the vast landscapes grazed by livestock or wildlife, sustain the livelihoods of around two billion people around the world. Yet in some places, they are disappearing faster than rainforests. In Africa, roughly half the continent is dryland...

In the humidity-controlled sterility of a Boston laboratory, a bubbling vat of engineered yeast is performing a biological alchemy. It is churning out withanolides, the potent stress-relieving compounds that have made ashwagandha a staple of Ayurvedic...