Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Agriculture constitutes the largest economic sector in Asia and Africa; therefore, issues like
land degradation, food security, biodiversity loss and climate change are inextricably linked …

In the tropics, shifting cultivation has long been attributed to large scale forest degradation,
and remains a major source of uncertainty in forest carbon accounting. In the Philippines …

Loss and damage from floods and landslides are escalating in the Philippines due to
increasing frequency and intensity of typhoons. This paper investigates the types and scale …

Moist tropical forests have a significant role in provisioning and regulating ecosystem
services. However, these forests are under threat of deforestation and forest degradation. In …

Southeast Asia is going through an economic boom with a 5.7% average growth rate in
gross domestic products or GDP (6), and has reportedly achieved the Millennium …

Storms continue to be the deadliest type of weather-related disasters globally. The
Philippines is one of the most at risk countries to disasters, yet there continues to be gaps in …

Climate change, caused by global warming, is a phenomenon partly resulting from
abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is the most pressing environmental …

Shifting cultivation is a widespread practice in tropical forested areas that policy makers
often regard as the major cause of forest degradation. Secondary fallow forests regrowing …

Forests in the tropics, compared to other ecosystems, serve as major carbon sinks, and
those that are intact store 40% of the aboveground carbon found in all tropical forests …