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Latest ITTO Tropical Forest Update focuses on "Owning Africa's forests"

In May 2009, ITTO, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), and the Cameroon Government combined to host, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the International Conference on Forest Tenure, Governance and Enterprise: New Opportunities for Central and West Africa. The aim was to catalyze new, wide-ranging actions by governments and civil-society organizations towards securing land and forest tenure in Central and West Africa. This special edition of the tfu reports on the conference: its key messages, discussions, conclusions, and recommendations. All conference presentations and working-group notes are available at www.rightsandresources.org.

Read the the latest version of ITTO's Tropical Forest Update

Posted By Lopaka Purdy at 10:41am on February 16, 2010

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