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CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Timber and Livelihoods in Ecuador

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has been conducting research and examining the country's thriving domestic timber market, trying to understand how smallholders and chainsaw millers relate it, and the barriers they face in complying with the formal system.To learn more, and for more stories of CIFOR's work in the Amazon, visit http://blog.cifor.org/amazonFor more photos, click here: http://bit.ly/11H7Dxx

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