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How to live with tropical forests?

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How to live with tropical forests?

© Plinio Sist

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How to live with tropical forests?

In South America, in Southeast Asia, in the Congo Basin... How can we rethink together, with the men and women who live there, the restoration of tropical forests?

(Rebroadcast June 7, 2021).

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In Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, how to consider seriously and sustainably the safeguarding and restoration of tropical forest basins (without taking into account the men and women who live there and who live there, in interdependence).

What could be more complex than these relationships, these links, these imbrications woven over millennia between humans and tropical forests?

And if to fight against deforestation in the Amazon or in the Congo Basin, it was no longer just a question of putting the forests under glass, but of thinking together the joint future of humans and forests?

What if the solutions were to seek better management of the forest, on a case-by-case basis, and with all its inhabitants?

With ecologists:

Marie-Ange Ngo-Bieng, 

researcher in Forest Ecology at the Forests & Societies Research Unit

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 Plinio Sist, 

director of the Forests & Societies research unit, which brings together 42 CIRAD researchers.

He is a tropical forest ecologist with over 25 years of experience in South America (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia).

For the collective work 

Living with tropical forests

/ Cirad (Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for the Sustainable Development of Tropical and Mediterranean Regions).

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