Slash-and-burn agriculture is more sustainable than modern clearing methods and improves biodiversity, a study suggests.

African smallholders could benefit from both cash crops and carbon payments by planting trees such as mango and cashew around their homes.

Trees can influence the local climate, but they are being left out of global climate models and predictions, according to scientists.

The production of frankincense may be 'doomed' as the resin-making Boswellia trees are being decimated.

Man-made activity is contributing to pressures on an Indian biodiversity hotspots, says study.

China and African countries are collaborating on technology transfer to use bamboo charcoal instead of forest trees for firewood.

Trees that fertilise the surrounding crops have been adopted by 400,000 farmers in southern Africa, boosting yields.

Scientists have requested a review of Brazil’s impending forest law, warning that it will increase deforestation.

Certified tree seeds are rare in Sub-Saharan Africa, and agroforestry farmers could boost yields with the right supplies, report researchers.

There are research gaps in assessing whether clean cookstoves have the desired health effects, say researchers.

Crops planted in deforested land near rainforests gain more rain — but at the expense of rainfall within the forest itself, finds a study.

Six programmes worth more than US$950 million, which will target the poor's access to food and markets, have been conditionally approved.

Projects in Latin America have shown that paying farmers for planting trees and conserving forests can enhance reforestation in the region.

Intercropping cocoa plantations with other plants may help reduce costs and increase cocoa yields in Ghana, researchers have shown.

The fund will support reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, the second biggest source of greenhouse gases in Mexico.

Buried mangrove forests act as earthquake-resistant foundations for buildings, a study in the Caribbean has found.

Africa should get the private sector to invest in technologies to restore the continent's severely degraded land, a conference has heard.

Researchers have issued a study warning about the environmental risks of changes to Brazil’s forestry law.

Laos is launching an insect farming research and training project in a bid to provide food security.

Measures of the environmental impact of meat produced in the Amazon must include carbon emissions due to the conversion of forest to pasture, says a study.