When Farwiza Farhan first visited the Leuser Ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in late 2010, she expected to see plantations slicing across the terrain as she flew in; the Southeast Asian nation is the world’s largest producer of palm oil, and a major player in the pulp and paper industry. Instead, “there were…

It’s become something of a cliche to attribute some of the greatness of a man to the woman standing at his side. With Graça Machel that would apply twice, first as the widow of Mozambique’s revolutionary first President, Samora Machel, then as the third wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela. But the impact of…