CIFOR Newsletter Highlights Work on Biodiversity and REDD+ [viewed]
June 2011: The June newsletter for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) describes CIFOR's outreach to make research on REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) more accessible to a broad range of stakeholders, as well as news from recent meetings on climate change and bushmeat.
4 July 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released a paper titled "Improved methods for carbon accounting for bioenergy: Descriptions and evaluations." The paper explains that because bioenergy is counted under the UNFCCC as originating from the land-use sector rather than the energy sector, bioenergy emissions are often not fully accounted for in countries with greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions obligations.
27 June 2011: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has announced the release of a policy paper titled “The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought: Toward an Integrated Global Assessment.” 
23 June 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) participated in a meeting of the national coordinators of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Mangroves Ecosystem for Climate Change and Livelihoods (MESCAL) project, which followed up on progress of the project and sought to ensure that MESCAL activities fit with the new Regional Wetlands Action Plan for Pacific Islands.
8 June 2011: The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has boosted the production of pearl millet yield through three phases of hybrid development, thereby contributing to improved food and nutritional security of the rural poor.
10 June 2011: A joint meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Liaison Group on Bushmeat and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Central Africa Bushmeat Working Group concluded that classic approaches and international efforts are not reversing the growing bushmeat trade, and adopted a set of recommendations to the international community.
3 June 2011: The Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Three Rainforest Basins, namely the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong basins, took place in Brazzaville, Congo, from 27 May-3 June 2011, to establish new ways to increase technical cooperation on forest matters, and adopted a joint statement on tropical forests, climate and sustainable development.
27 May 2011: Bioversity International has released the first module in a Training Guide for non-specialists, titled "Forest Genetic Resources," to help practitioners make decisions related to in situ and ex situ conservation, threats and small populations of individual plant species. The first module focuses on Species Genetic Conservation, including conservation paradigms, biological corridors, genetic processes with small populations, and threats identification. 
13 May 2011: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Africa Rice Center held a Regional Workshop on Seed Policy in West Africa, during which participating agricultural experts called for development of "food security crops" (rice, millet, sorghum, cowpeas and maize).
