RRI Work and Resources in China

Having already carried out substantial forest tenure reforms to devolve control over collective forestlands to village households in China, RRI focuses on how rural communities can, in practice, equitably benefit from their rights. This involves examining the system of compensation for logging bans in ecological protection zones, logging quotas, gender and minority rights, grievance mechanisms and further research on policy options for state forest reform that remains undecided.
 

Below you can find resources for China listed by resource-type (i.e. News, Publications, Events).

Upcoming Events!

• Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders: Global Issues in Governance
  May 27, 2013 - Oaxaca, Mexico

Recent News

• Reuters: China village seethes over land grabs as Beijing mulls new laws March 07, 2013
• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions February 22, 2013
• The Guardian: Land-grabbing firms beware: cost of ignoring people's rights is rising February 18, 2013
• Veckans Affärer (in Swedish): Skogsjätten lever inte som de lär February 14, 2013
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Burma 'latest flashpoint' in global land grabbing epidemic February 11, 2013
• China Daily: Farmer's land rights December 28, 2012
• Wall Street Journal: China Tackles Land Grabs, Key Source of Rural Anger December 06, 2012
• Christian Science Monitor: Prince of Blackwater heads to Africa November 20, 2012
• The Irrawaddy: Report Urges Govt to Address Land Grabbing Issue October 26, 2012
• New publications released by World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) - Southeast Asia September 21, 2012

Publications relating to China

• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
  
• Charting New Waters
• Collective Forest Tenure Reform under Village Democracy
• Migración, medios de vida rurales y manejo de recursos naturales
• Migration, Rural Livelihoods & Natural Resource Management
• The Next Step
• Application of project findings on amendment of Forest Law of the People’s Republic of China (Chinese)
• 2012.11 Internal monitoring and assessment on collective forest tenure reforms
• Opportunities and challenges for deepening collective forest tenure reform (Chinese)
• Role of provincial and local governments in support of community and ethnic forestation
• 2012.11 International Conference on Forest Tenure Reform Participant List
  
• 2012.11 Development of forest cooperatives and under-forest economy
• 2012.11 The International Family Forest Alliance
• 2012.11 Encouraging cooperatives and associations: Good practices and key to success of forest producer organizations (English)
• 2012.11 Forest cooperatives: Experiences in China (Chinese)
• 2012.11 Forest trade centers: Experiences from the FAO China Project
• 2012.11 International experiences in forest insurance
• 2012.11 Forest mortgage loans and forest insurance: Status of development in China (Chinese)
• 2012.11 Livelihood outcomes of forest tenure reform
• 2012.11 Impact on ecological environment by forest tenure reform
• 2012.11 Basic policy idea of forest tenure reform in nature reserves: empowerment and benefits return to forest farmers (Chinese)
• 2012.11 Performance and problem analysis based on forest farmers’ rights-behavior-profit-intention logic (Chinese)
• Legal support services: Status of reforms in China (Chinese)
• Legal and policy reform to address emerging challenges in forest tenure reform (English & Chinese)
• Tenure reform experience in India and the Forest Rights Act (English)
• Overview and lessons from FAO case studies
• Forest tenure reform and rural household off-farm labor decision (English & Chinese)
• International Conference on Forest Tenure Reform
  
• Ensuring that Poor Rural Women Benefit from Forestland Reforms in China
• A Case for Farmers and Rural Communities’ Right to Compensation Under China’s Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP)
• RRI Impact Story
• World Agroforestry Centre: Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China
• Role of Smaller Forest Enterprises in Transition
• 2012 Lao workshop - Land tenure reform in China (Lao)
• 2012 Lao workshop - Land tenure reform in China
• China Green Times: 谁来维护“她们”的森林权益？
• Chinese Academy of Forestry: 亚洲社会性别与林权暨中国集体林权制度改革国际研讨会召开
• State Forestry Administration of China:
• STDaily.com (China): 应承认妇女在森林建设中的关键角色
• Reuters AlertNet: Women are the foot soldiers of climate change adaptation' - expert
• Reuters TrustLaw: Word on Women - Impact of Forestland Reforms on Rural Women in China
• Collective Forestland Tenure Reform in China: Potential Impacts on Rural Women
• International Workshop on Gender and Forest Tenure in Asia and Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China: List of Participants
  
• International Workshop on Gender and Forest Tenure in Asia and Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China: Conference Agenda
• International Workshop on Gender and Forest Tenure in Asia and Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China: Conference Agenda
• Press Release: New Suite of Research shows Economic, Social, Ecological Benefits when Women’s Rights are Secure; Warns that Asia is Unlikely to Achieve Climate, Poverty Goals Unless Critical Role of Women in Asia’s Forests is Recognized
• The Challenges of Securing Women’s Tenure and Leadership for Forest Management
• Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China
• Washington Post: Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change
• CBS News: Studies show land rights key to saving forests

Past

• State of Rights and Resources 2012-2013: Landowners or Laborers? A panel on the rural development choices facing leaders of developing countries
  February 05, 2013 - London, UK
• International Conference on Forest Tenure Reform: Status and review of forest tenure reforms in China and a global perspective on the way forward
  November 21, 2012 - Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
• International Workshop on Gender and Forest Tenure in Asia and Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China
  July 21, 2012 - Beijing, China
• Conference on Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reforms: Experiences, Lessons and Future Steps in Asia
  September 24, 2010 - Beijing, P.R. China
• MegaFlorestais 2010
  September 20, 2010 - Wuyishan, P.R. China
• International Conference on Tenure and Regulatory Reform in China
  February 28, 2008 - Beijing, China