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Canopy commerce: forest conservation and poverty alleviation
Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone's Gola Forest - globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves - are being developed by a collaboration of conservation agencies and University of Cambridge researchers.
'Extreme Sleepover #2' - a night in Ghana's tropical forest
In the second of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, zoologist Dr Ben Phalan ventures into a tropical forest to understand the impact of encroaching agriculture.
Sparing or sharing? Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land
Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.
Food security: your questions answered
Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century - how to guarantee enough food, fairly, for the world's rapidly expanding population. As part of this, we asked whether you had a question that you wanted us to answer, and put them to a panel of academics who specialise in research to do with food security. Here's what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!
Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland
A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left Ireland. Today the world is watching as millions in Africa face a similar fate: starvation in the midst of plenty. Dr David Nally's analysis of what happened in his native Ireland less than two centuries ago reveals some shocking parallels with what is happening in Africa.
Farming and the fate of wild nature
As the drive to increase food production gathers pace, conservation scientists suggest that reconciling food security with protecting biodiversity might require unexpected solutions.
In soil we trust
Far from being merely 'dirt', soil plays a fundamental role in food production, water availability and biodiversity. A new research programme aims to safeguard its future sustainable management.