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2/5 CF promotes adherence to initiatives that advance #genderequity. Namely, 35% representation in local government, regular village meetings, and receipt of training opportunities. So how did gender equity compare in villages with and without #CommunityForestry? #FLARETC20

3/5 Women are proportionately higher on Village Councils and environmental committees in areas with CF. Significantly so on Village Councils, the main local governance unit. Women score lower on the #HopeScale (Snyder) than men but significantly less so in areas with CF.

4/5 #CommunityForest villages score significantly higher on #governance and in particular gender & equity issues. The score card includes 9 thematic areas and 39 indicators. #FLARETC20

5/5 Results from gender-specific training suggests that explicit effort = immediate impacts. Although the influence of CF may influence a shift towards gender parity, it is unlikely it will result in a dramatic transformation w/o explicit effort.#AnneLarsonTweets @Darwin_Defra

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Quality as well as quantity: rapid field assessments and #remotesensing provide the best early warning of #forest degradation to prioritise #conservation action: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… in Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh #BiodiversityCrisis

#COP15 is currently ongoing in Kunming, China 🌿 In today's #TRADEHub blog post w/ World Agroforestry👇 We look further south towards China's 'rubber heartland' Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan Province, and the social and environmental impacts of changing rubber demands. tradehub.earth/2021/10/12/the…

📢 Call for papers! 🌳 With the publication of the Global Tree Assessment, we know more about the global threats to #trees. Malin Rivers, Chuck Cannon and Chen Jin invite authors to discuss key achievements, results, lessons learned, and future steps. 👇 newphytologist.org/news/view/288

Fascinating collaborative work by GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub using #lichens as indicators of nitrogen #pollution in #biodiverse and socio-economically important #Himalayan #forests: doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…. UK Research and Innovation GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub

Don't miss Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers tonight at 1930 on BBC One Scotland, with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' Scottish plant conservation team exploring the beautiful #CorrieFee. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… RBGE Scottish Plants Cairngorms National Park

How do falling rubber prices in China's rubber heartland impact local livelihoods? Find out more in this new paper with World Agroforestry ! 🌲 READ HERE🔗 bit.ly/3IqmHXL

#otd 1922 small botanical footnote to the 1921 Everest reconnaissance

For 20 years, our dedicated phenology volunteer team - undeterred by rain or cold weather – have been monitoring plant life cycles of hundreds of species. Their data is helping us to understand and predict how climate change will impact species and ecosystems #ScotClimateWeek

A really interesting discussion on how to ensure fair economic returns to farmers for agricultural commodities such as rubber and cocoa

Well done Aline and Martine, this work is truly dedicated and groundbreaking. Totally deserved award

We have an amazing six collaborative E4 PhD studentships open for applications at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. For how to apply go to ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-…. Details of each project follows [thread]

Super proud to see Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' @AlineFinger1 with Project Seagrass, St-AbbsMarineStation, The University of Edinburgh and others awarded the #innovation prize at Nature of Scotland Awards 2022. Vital work for #climate and #Biodiversity in #Scotland. #natureofscotland

Join us! We have a full-time, fixed-term vacancy for a Post-doctoral Researcher in Remote Sensing & Spatial Mapping Tool Development, in our collaborative Natural Environment Research Council project to reduce commodity-driven forest & biodiversity loss. Details: rbge.org.uk/about-us/worki…. Deadline 20 Jan

🍄✨ Let us illuminate you on a new species of Patagonian mushroom, found in the Vodudahue Reserve, managed by the Alerce 3000 Foundation, after a year of exploration and baseline studies led by Fundación Chilco and #TeamRBGE scientists. 📷 Vicente Matías Valdés Guzmán

Everyone makes use of rubber products, from car tyres to washing-up gloves. In groundbreaking new research led by #TeamRBGE, the impact of the global rubber trade on tropical forests is revealed to have been underestimated. Read more 👉 rbge.cc/48QAyop