The provision of ecosystem services is directly related to the type of land use and land cover
and management practices in a given area. Changes in land use and land cover can alter …

There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

A large proportion of the rural population in Ethiopia depends on community-managed
forests for food security and livelihoods. However, the government and development …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) of community forests (CFs) contribute to human welfare.
However, limited information is available about the relationship between traditional …

We reflect on the socio-economic challenges in designing, implementing and monitoring
tree planting activities using a case study of Ethiopia, a country aiming to restore 15 of the …

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) frames restoration as a
momentous nature-based solution for achieving many of the ecological, economic, and …

As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, there remains insufficient emphasis
on the human and social dimensions of restoration. The potential that restoration holds for …

Abstract The Bonn Challenge, a voluntary global initiative launched in 2011, aims to bring
up to 350 million hectares of degraded land into some level of restorative state by 2030. Pilot …

Tropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with
the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods …

Community-managed forested landscapes are complex social-ecological systems that
supply a variety of ecosystem services (ES) to society. The flow of these services depends …