Bangkok” September 3″ 2007 A challenge to experts opens conference on poverty and forests. Crippling poverty” violent conflict” insecure ownership” restricted access to basic resources…
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Poverty and forests – New report
Anecdotal evidence and some country case studies have pointed to a strong coincidence between areas of remaining high forest cover and high poverty rate. A…
Conservation vs. Livelihoods?
An article published in the Hindu highlights the necessity to balance conservation and livelihoods concerns” so as not to alienate the communities who inhabit the…
ITTO Tropical Forest Update on tenure shift” RRI” and the CFE conference
The latest Tropical Forest Update” published by ITTO” opens with an editorial reflecting on the themes developed at the July RRI CFE Conference: Tropical forests…
Governments must axe their hold on the forests
Below is an Op-Ed authored by the Rights and Resources Initiative” invited by the Guardian and published in the Guardian on August 15th. Click here…
Summary from RRI LLS Insular South East Asia meeting
The meeting was held in Cagayan de Oro” Philippines on July 26 and 27. It brought together leading thinkers from Indonesia and the Philippines to…
Summary from RRI LLS Insular South East Asia meeting
The meeting was held in Cagayan de Oro” Philippines on July 26 and 27. It brought together leading thinkers from Indonesia and the Philippines to…
The Tanzanian butterfly effect
Community enterprise reduces poverty among forest dwellers RIO BRANCO” BRAZIL (20 July 2007)— There is a saying in chaos theory that a butterfly flapping its…
RRI international conference on Community Forest Management and Enterprises: Global Issues and Opportunities
International Conference on Community Forest Management and Enterprises: Global Issues and Opportunities Rio Branco” Acre” Brazil July 15 – 20″ 2007 Organizedby the Rights and…
Report finds forest enterprises stifled by red tape” putting forests” incomes at risk
As a follow-up to our previous blog” here is another online article summarizing the findings of the last RRI/ITTO report. RIO BRANCO” BRAZIL (16 July…
RRI Brazil conference on community forestry in the media
The conference on Commmunity Forest Management organized in Brazil by RRI and ITTO is gaining international media attention. The following is an article published on…
China's demand for recycled wastepaper: A blessing and a curse for the world's forests
RRI partner Forest Trends published a new report in their series on China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region. The report is titled Environmental Aspects…
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