COMMUNITY FORESTRY

There is a growing movement aimed at addressing concerns about forestry management by engaging local communities in a participatory role and enabling them to share their knowledge and share the benefits of the foests. For local people, being involved in forestry management should ensure a longterm sustainable income; for governments, it means a forest-based industry with community support.

Community-based forestry projects are often initiated by organisations or companies, working on a partnership basis. Decision-making is 'bottom-up' rather than 'top-down', drawing out the knowledge and expertise of those whose lives are based in and around the forests - which may prove challenging for companies or forestry authorities used to being in control or policing local communities rather than working alongside them. Community forestry involves seeking a balance between outside and community interests.

Under local forest management projects, communities may also establish new approaches to agricultural and other land-use activities that benefit local ecosystems rather than degrading them. A parallel benefit to bringing local communities into the decision-making and management process is that this may develop the capacity and desire for involvement in wider governance issues.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/12/2012	Guide to Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry This Guide to Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) emerged out of 11 international dialogues ...	IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) (Dominic Elson)
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31/10/2012	Community-based Forest Monitoring for REDD+: Lessons and Reflections from the Field This policy brief reports some of the early findings of a regional action learning project involving ...	IGES
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07/09/2012	Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry: A Review of TFD’s Initiative on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry 2009–2012 Under the right conditions, locally controlled forestry (LCF) can be a strong contributor to local livelihoods, ...	The Forests Dialogue (TFD)
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01/09/2012	Sustainable Community Forest Management: A Practical Guide to FSC Group Certification for Smallholder Agroforests With an estimated 558 million people managing 1 billion hectares of agroforests worldwide, TFT’s ...	The Forest Trust (Robin Barr, Ann Busche, Michael Pescott, Agung Wiyono, Agus Eka Putera, Arlan Victor, Bahrun, Novi Fauzan, Sugeng Prantio, & Untung Karnanto)
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01/09/2012	Community Forestry in Cameroon: How it Can Contribute More Effectively to FLEGT The basic idea of community forestry (CF) is to grant small-scale logging rights to forest-adjacent communities ...	Tropenbos International
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19/06/2012	ETFRN News 53: Moving Forward with Forest Governance It is widely acknowledged that improving forest governance is an important prerequisite for sustainable ...	Tropenbos International
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01/06/2012	Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry: Natural Protection for People and Planet As a policy research organisation,the International Institute for Environment and Development has evolved ...	IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) (Duncan Macqueen, Peter deMarsh, Ghan Shyam Pandey, Estebancio Castro Diaz, Lucile Robinson, Sian Lewis)
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03/10/2011	Second Regional Forum for People and Forests: Local People Hold the Key to Solving Current and Emerging Issues Although Community Forestry can help slow and even reverse deforestation, only 26% of forests in the ...	The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC)
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01/01/2011	Forests for Food Security and Livelihood Sustainability: Policy Problems and Opportunities for Small Farmers in Nepal In Nepal, many rural households need access to public forest resources to complement private resources ...	Faculty of Commerce, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand (Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Hugh Bigsby, & Ross Cullen)
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01/01/2011	Community Based Forest Management: The Extent and Potential Scope of Community and Smallholder Forest Management and Enterprises CBFEs (Community Based Forest Enterprises) are truly local institutions; this is one of the reasons for ...	Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
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01/12/2010	Revisiting Collaborative Forest Management in Kyrgyzstan: What Happened to Bottom-Up Decision-Making? Over the past 15 years, the Swiss government, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, ...	IIED
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01/11/2010	Sustainable Forest Management as a Strategy to Combat Climate Change: Lessons from Mexican Communities This study presents the results of recent studies of community forest management in Mexico in the belief ...	Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) & Rights and Resources
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20/09/2010	ETFRN News 51: Biodiversity Conservation in Certified Forests The role of logging in the loss and degradation of tropical forest has become an issue of popular concern ...	ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network)
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01/06/2010	The Hottest REDD issues: Rights, Equity, Development, Deforestation and Governance by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities This discussion paper is a contribution to the debate about policies and incentives to reduce emissions ...	Global Forest Coalition
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12/05/2010	Forest Certification for Community-based Forest Management in Indonesia: Does LEI Provide a Credible Option? While small forest enterprises make an important contribution to the forest industry in many countries, ...	IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies)
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01/11/2009	Conservation with Justice: A Rights-based Approach A rights-based approach has the potential to harmonize nature conservation activities with human rights ...	IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 71
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04/09/2009	Trade-offs and Synergies Between Carbon Storage and Livelihood Benefits from Forest Commons The authors of this article analysed 80 community managed forest areas in 10 tropical countries across ...	Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois & Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
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01/01/2008	Prospects for Community Forestry in Liberia: Implementing the National Forest Policy This paper seeks to map out a course for the development of community involvement in forest management ...	Overseas Development Institute, UK
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06/09/2007	Developing Capacity, Engaging Key Trade and Supporting Community Forest Enterprises: An Approach for Sustainable Forest Management in Africa The document explains the Rainforest Alliances contribution to Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in ...	Rainforest Alliance
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
19/04/2013	UN-backed partnership helps Kenyans protect forests, improve livelihoods A United Nations-backed project in Kenya is protecting forests and wildlife, as well as providing alternative ...	UN News Centre
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15/04/2013	Ethiopia enlists help of forest communities to reverse deforestation Despite taking years to establish the first projects, growth in forest cover and increasing incomes for ...	The Guardian
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25/03/2013	An Indigenous Solution: Deforestation in the Amazon (Part 2) When I met Krentoma back in the 1980s, his people, the Panará, were just starting to recover from ...	EDF
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04/03/2013	Indonesia: Communities under REDD+ Indonesia possesses some of world’s richest forests in terms of biodiversity, carbon values and ...	The Jakarta Post
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22/02/2013	Latin America’s forests – what lies ahead in 2013? Lima, Peru - In the past year, Latin America’s forests saw progress and setbacks that will shape ...	Center for International Forestry Research
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30/11/2012	Indigenous leaders embrace REDD, with or without carbon markets In Doha, more than a dozen indigenous leaders spoke in favor of the “Indigenous REDD” program, ...	Ecosystem Marketplace
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28/11/2012	Social fencing programs up for illegal logging ‘hot spots’ The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking to implement social fencing programs ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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16/11/2012	Colombia gets world's first VCS validated and verified REDD project on collective lands A conservation project in Colombia has broken new ground in the world of forest carbon credits. The project, ...	Mongabay.com
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04/10/2012	Mexico halts illegal logging at butterfly reserve Mexico City – Mexican authorities and peasants have stamped out illegal logging at a Monarch butterfly ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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27/09/2012	New international forestry award: Activist from Nepal receives Wangari Maathai Award Rome - The first-ever Wangari Maathai Award has been given today to a forestry activist from Nepal to ...	FAO Media Centre
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26/09/2012	Report suggests provision of more incentives to communities to protect the forests Fumesua - Provision of more incentives to the Community Forest Committees (CFCs) has been identified ...	Ghana News Agency
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24/09/2012	Illegal logging costs the nation in revenue For years now, Tanzania has been named as one of the countries in the world losing millions of revenue ...	allAfrica.com
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07/09/2012	Place forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability Jeju Island, Republic of Korea - To increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people ...	IUCN
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16/08/2012	In Ghana’s forests, should chainsaw loggers be legalized? The West African nation of Ghana prohibits small operators using chainsaws from logging its forests, ...	Yale Environment 360
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01/08/2012	Do REDD trees make forest green? Deforestation, especially of tropical forests, makes up 18 percent of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) ...	National Geographic
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30/07/2012	Tanzania: community forestry programme ready for launching The much awaited community forestry programme, Mama Msitu, is finally being launched, aimed at empowering ...	allAfrica.com
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23/07/2012	Smartphones promoted as a tool for indigenous forest protection Smartphones beeping in the woods may be a welcome presence that augurs the increased ability of indigenous ...	Mongabay.com
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26/06/2012	Communities are not companies: New approach needed for community managed forests Rio de Janeiro - Models for smallholder and community forest management need to be rethought if certification ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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30/05/2012	Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change Shanghai - Ensuring that forest dwellers have rights over their land is vital for slowing the deforestation ...	The Washington Post, US
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29/05/2012	Rewarding tribal folk for forest conservation Tingguian elder Magno Dumas has committed himself to guard and protect every species of trees, plants, ...	The Inquirer, Philippines
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25/05/2012	Sustainable agro forestry development in the indigenous community Piaroa de Gavilan in the Amazon state, Venezuela Traditionally, indigenous populations of the Venezuelan Amazon, which were mostly nomadic until a few ...	GEF (Global Environment Facility)
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04/05/2012	Forestry, economic development & climate change in Asia: resolving the tension Reducing poverty in developing countries through economic development is often contrary to addressing ...	The Conversation, Australia
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17/04/2012	Laos: Communal land titles could save more than forests Vientiane - With pressure on natural resources increasing in Laos, the first community land titles granted ...	IRIN News
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24/03/2012	Uganda CFM fails to curb illegal logging The ability of Uganda’s Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) to check loss of forest cover is ...	The East African
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11/03/2012	Act amendment soon to curb deforestation Kathmandu - The Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation is giving final touches to a draft designed ...	The Himalayan Times, Nepal
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07/03/2012	Gambia: CU introduces new initiative to tackle illegal logging and deforestation The Gambian-based NGO, Concern Universal (CU), is to roll out a new programme, aimed at utilising Gambian ...	allAfrica.com
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21/02/2012	Conservation is priceless for Kenyan forest The people of Kilifi County value the protection of the complex ecosystems of Arabuko Sokoke above the ...	The Guardian, UK
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18/02/2012	Ghana delegation visits Guyana to learn about Sustainable Forestry Inititative Seeking to learn more about Guyana’s Chainsaw Milling Project, a sustainable forestry initiative, ...	Caribbean Journal
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17/02/2012	Citizen science goes 'extreme' Researchers push for wider use of community-generated data in science and policy-making. In the Congo ...	Nature
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16/02/2012	Busting the forest myths: people as part of the solution The long-held contention that rural forest communities are the prime culprits in tropical forest destruction ...	Yale Environment 360
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15/01/2012	Lady Tarzan cuts timber mafia to size Eleven years ago, Muturkham forests, lying southeast of capital Ranchi, used to be the timber mafia’s ...	Hindustan Times, East India
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05/01/2012	'Irregularities rife‚ deforestation rampant' Kathmandu - The Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) today directed the ...	The Himalayan Times, Nepal
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08/09/2011	Saving ancient walnut forests in the valleys of Central Asia The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan is home to some of the world’s largest remaining forests ...	Yale Environment 360
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21/06/2011	Indonesia's moratorium undermines community forestry in favor of industrial interests Indonesia's moratorium on new concessions in primary forest areas and peatlands "completely ...	Mongabay.com
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30/05/2011	UNDP-GEF joint project helps Cambodia save forests UNDP and Global Environment Facility on Monday launched a new project worth over US$3.8 million to help ...	UNDP
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10/05/2011	Asia’s real contribution to the global health of forests A new report highlights forest planting in Asia, but there’s a more important movement growing ...	The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC)
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09/05/2011	Monks fight to get Cambodian forests on the carbon market For years, the guardians of Sorng Rukavorn forest have drifted through the muted greens and grays of ...	Time
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10/03/2011	Fighting illegal logging in Indonesia by giving communities a stake in forest management Over the past twenty years Indonesia lost more than 24 million hectares of forest, an area larger than ...	Mongabay.com
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23/02/2011	Conservation projects in Guatemala and Nepal win UN environment prize A forest conservation initiative in Guatemala and a sustainable development project in Nepal are the ...	UN News Centre
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03/02/2011	Communities not getting a say in how forests are managed Conservation groups and scientists claim government-backed forest industries have led to entrenched poverty ...	Guardian, UK
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02/02/2011	Group calls for more managed forests to increase economic gains New York - Proponents for saving the world's forests on Tuesday called for increasing the size of ...	Monsters and Critics
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23/01/2011	Climate accords and neo-colonialism Ubud, Indonesia ― Third World activists are often animated by an anti-colonial instinct that induces ...	The Korea Times, South Korea
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15/01/2011	Locals to manage Hue's forests Thua Thien, Hue – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has decided to expand allocation of forest ...	Viet Nam News
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11/01/2011	Good policies a must for commercial use of forests The United Nation (UN) has declared 2011 as the international year of forests although more than a billion ...	IPP Media
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11/01/2011	New FSC timber supply opportunities following 700% expansion of certified community-managed forests in Tanzania The supply of responsibly harvested African blackwood stands to increase significantly as a result of ...	Sound and Fair
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05/01/2011	Climate colonialism by stealth Strict emissions control standards can impoverish the world’s poor and their less-developed governments ...	Livemint.com
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05/01/2011	Mexico, the leader in community forest management Mexico City - Thanks to its experience with community forestry projects, Mexico can provide tips on how ...	IPS News
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03/01/2011	Tree-conomics Many trees are private goods. If you own some, you can probably do whatever you want with them. As a ...	The New York Times
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17/12/2010	Indigenous peoples’ forest rights and REDD in East Kalimantan Our narrow canoe slices through the dark, turgid waters of the Mahakam River, fed by the silt laden run-off ...	The Jakarta Post
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04/12/2010	Monks branch out into carbon market to protect forest ...	The Age, Australia
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22/11/2010	Growing a forest, and harvesting jobs Ixtlan de Juarez, Mexico — As an unforgiving midday sun bore down on the pine-forested mountains ...	The New York Times
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01/11/2010	Peru: Statement by AIDESEP on the rights and consultation of indigenous peoples In a public statement directed at the Peruvian State, the World Bank, UNDP and UNFCCC, the Inter-ethnic ...	Bank Information Center
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23/09/2010	Keeping it in the community: Well-organised locals often make the best forest managers, but they need help At a sawmill in the misty hills of Michoacán in central Mexico, loggers sporting damp sombreros ...	The Economist, UK
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15/08/2010	Forest user groups misusing rights: Govt Kathmandu - The government has blamed community forest user groups (CFUGs) for massive deforestation ...	My Republica, Nepal
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29/06/2010	Calling for an 'old-fashioned' green revolution Using "good old-fashioned" farming techniques will help deliver a sustainable green revolution ...	BBC News
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15/06/2010	Poverty and deforestation link spelt out Ho Chi Minh City — Poverty is the main cause of the destruction of forests and eliminating poverty ...	Viet Nam News
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24/03/2010	Community networks key to forest reform Communities linked to their own networks and organizations have the best chance of success in community ...	The Jakarta Post
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02/02/2010	NEPAL: Communities take up cudgels for forest conservation Kathmandu - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking ...	IPS News
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07/01/2010	Rural communities lead Nepal’s green fightback Kavre, Nepal - Thirty years ago, Nepalese farmer Badri Prasad Jangam realized that the once thickly wooded ...	Business World, Philippines
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06/01/2010	Australia helps REDD projects in Jambi Indonesia and Australia are set to launch the first-ever forest carbon project in Jambi following the ...	The Jakarta Post
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17/12/2009	Congo villagers look to Copenhagen to save forest As world leaders haggle over a plan to fight global warming, tribes in Congo's rainforest have armed ...	World Bulletin
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08/12/2009	REDD in Madagascar Despite damage from ongoing illegal logging, Madagascar's remaining forests are poised to benefit ...	Mongabay.com
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27/11/2009	A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits ...	Mongabay.com
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25/11/2009	Bicol national park finds guardians among its people Basud, Camarines Norte - Logging, timber-poaching and, just recently, charcoal-making are forbidden activities ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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23/11/2009	Feature - Amazon forest schemes await strong climate pact The $30 monthly stipend is a useful rather than a transformational boost to family incomes in Juma, which ...	Reuters
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20/11/2009	How to axe a destructive practice Deforestation is a huge problem for much of Africa. Blanche Girouard visits northern Tanzania where she ...	Guardian, UK
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07/10/2009	Locals, private sector preserve forest together A program jointly held one year ago by a NGO and private company that produce drinking water, has successfully ...	The Jakarta Post
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07/10/2009	Give forests back to local people to save them Give tropical forests back to the people who live in them – and the trees will soak up your carbon ...	New Scientist
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26/09/2009	Harapan rainforest raises hope amid overexploitation Sumatra's low-plain forests are fast diminishing, currently measuring only 400,000 hectares. The ...	The Jakarta Post
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23/09/2009	Forest conservation: who has the right idea? The Thai government’s recent U-turn on its decision to remove monks in temples in environmentally-protected ...	Sideways News
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24/06/2009	Cambodia signs REDD agreement Terra Global Capital, a San Francisco-based firm seeking to capitalize on emerging markets for ecosystem ...	Mongabay.com
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18/03/2009	Namibia: ten dollars for a 200-year-old tree Namibia - Despite the investment of millions of donor dollars, the permit system in Namibias Community ...	IPS (Italy)
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09/12/2008	Climate of no-confidence Forests may help in the fight against climate change but will their inhabitants? ...	Nepalnews.com (Nepal)
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18/02/2008	Namibia: community forests a boon Community forests last year generated more than N$300 000 for rural communities living in the north-east ...	allAfrica.com
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03/02/2008	Flaws in the Forestry Bill Thailand - At least two provisions in the approved law are seen to deprive many communities of the right ...	Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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27/01/2007	The Forestry Commission has had an effective log tracking system for seven years Guyana - Proponents of Guyana Forestry Commission's log tracking system hit back. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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31/08/2006	Ghana: new system to check chain operations introduced Ghana - To curtail the rampant stealing of teak in the country's forest reserves, the Plantation ...	AllAfrica.com
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04/05/2006	International coalition launches unprecedented effort to strengthen local rights to own and use forests and fight rural poverty Group sees historic opportunity to boost incomes among 1.6 billion forest-dependent poor, prevent illegal ...	Rights and Resources Initiative (USA)
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18/02/2005	Villagers create forests, improve environment Wonogiri has long been known for its dry, barren areas that recurrently experience clean water shortages ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
22/10/2009	Equitable and effective forestbased climate change mitigation; learning from Nepal	Bhola Battarai, FECOFUN, Nepal
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Monday 18th June 2012	Community forest management to assure sustainable development RRI is hosting an official UN side event during Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, ...
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Monday 27th February 2012	Mitigation and Adaptation: Managing Forest Conflicts in the context of Climate Change for the ASEAN region Climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts can increase the risk for conflict over forests and ...
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Monday 8th August 2011	Second Regional Forum for People and Forests: Community Forestry - Key to Solving Current and Emerging Challenges Many Asia-Pacific countries have made considerable strides in giving local people a greater stake in ...
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Sunday 24th July 2011	Small-Scale Forestry: Synergies and Conflicts in Social, Ecological and Economic Interactions The UN has declared 2011 the "International Year of Forests". This is to raise awareness and ...
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Tuesday 21st June 2011	Forests for People – The Role of Social Forestry in REDD+ and Forest Conservation The Conference and the Meeting of ASEAN’s Social Forestry Network (ASFN) will consist of Plenary ...
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Wednesday 24th March 2010	Taking stock of smallholder and community forestry: Where do we go from here? CIFOR, the French research institute for development (IRD) and the French international research center ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Community Forestry International	Community Forestry International, Inc. (CFI) assists rural communities to stabilise and regenerate forests by helping policy makers, development agencies, NGOs, and professional foresters create the legal instruments, human resource capacities, and negotiation processes and methods to support resident resource managers. CFI believes that including local communities in the management of natural resources leads to increased livelihood security and poverty alleviation that, in turn, encourages greater sustainable development. CFI enables community forest management strategies to become an integral part of sustainable forest management world-wide.	Broken link
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FARM-Africa	FARM-Africa provides the training and support that poor rural communities need to identify and implement appropriate solutions to many of the key problems they face. FARM-Africa's community forest management project is working with forest-dependent people in Ethiopia and Tanzania. FARM-Africa works with forest communities and local authorities to develop sustainable management plans for the forests which give communities around forests real responsibility for protecting their forests and in return they are allowed to use the forest in a sustainable way, making use of forest products such as wild coffee, spices, medicines and honey. FARM-Africa has helped to find new more valuable markets for these products.	Broken link
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Forest Connect	Forest Connect is an international alliance dedicated to tackling the isolation of small forest enterprises. Established in late 2007, its aims are to avoid deforestation and reduce poverty by better linking sustainable small forest enterprises to each other, to markets, to service providers and to policy processes such as National Forest Programmes (nfps). It currently involves partner institutions with funded facilitation plans in 12 countries: Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique and Nepal plus a broader network of 700+ supporters in 58 countries linked by an international social networking site.	Broken link
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Forest People's Programme	Forest Peoples Programme supports forest peoples to secure and sustainably manage their forests, lands and livelihoods. Their strategies to achieve this include: * promoting the rights and interests of forest peoples at local, national and international levels * creating space for forest peoples to have an effective voice in decision-making processes * challenging top-down policies and projects that deprive local peoples of resources * coordinating support among environmental organisations for forest peoples' visions * supporting community-led sustainable forest management * publicising forest peoples' plight through research, analysis and documentation. Click here for the Forest Peoples Programme webpage with ongoing dialogue with HSBC over funded activities by companies in Sarawak and Guyana.	Broken link
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The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC)	RECOFTC's vision is to see local communities in the Asia-Pacific region actively involved in the equitable and ecologically sustainable management of forest landscapes. The organisation's mission is to enhance capacities at all levels to assist people of the Asia-Pacific region to develop community forestry and manage forest resources for optimum social, economic and environmental benefits. RECOFTC produces a monthly 'E-News' to which visitors to the site can subscribe, which includes the latest news, events, analysis, and more from the world of community forestry,	Broken link
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