Reporting research results to REDD+ study area fosters relationships, validates findings

BOGOR, Indonesia (6 January 2012)__ Reporting research results to villages where the study was conducted fosters relationships crucial to the next phases of the project and allows local stakeholders to validate the findings, said a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). “We were able to see already how many changes had occurred at the project sites that weren’t related to REDD,” said Amy Duchelle, CIFOR’s field coordinator for the Global Comparative Study on...