This month” the UNFF Secretariat Online Forum is hosting a discussionon the benefits and challenges associated with community-based forestmanagement. The guest contributor for this discussion is Marike Michelof the Global Alliance of Community Forestry” an RRI Collaborator.

Thediscussion board is open for one week” until March 11th” and a briefsummary of key issues raised in the on-line discussions will bepublished in the next edition of the UNFF newsletter.

Past UNFF Online Forums have also included topics of interest:

• What are the root causes of deforestation

• Central vs. local governance for Sustainable Forest Management

• Ownership structures and tenure for SFM

• Farmers and small forest landowners