Following the 2002 report Who Owns the World’s Forests?, RRI’s latest analysis From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and opportunities inadvancing forest tenure reform, which analyzes…
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RRI publishes a new global report reviewing the history of development intervention in forest areas and proposes new strategies for advancing forest rights
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RRI joins the debate on The Commons at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, sharing best practices on managing, protecting and creating shared global resources
RRI partners participated in a lively discussion of common property rights and customary systems of communal resource management at the 12th Biennial Conference of the…
RRI and the FPP launch two important publications on forest tenure, poverty alleviation, and climate change
RRI and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) held a press conference with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) in the House of Commons…
An analysis surveying forest tenure and community awareness of legal rights to forest land in Mali and Niger provide important insight in advancing forest rights in these two countries
Intercooperation conducted an analysis of forest tenure and the level of local communities?awareness of their legal rights to forest lands in Mali and Niger. The…
RRI helps refine Bolivia’s national forest strategy
At the request of the Bolivian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, RRI collaborated with the Bolivian government to help refine the country’s national forest…
ATEMs workshop held in Liberia to promotes alternative, locally-led development approaches to accelerate pro-poor growth
RRI and collaborators provoked discussion of alternative tenure and enterprise models in Liberia during a workshop at the University of Liberia in Monrovia. The seminar…
RRI convenes 2nd Annual Megaflorestais Meeting
RRI coordinated the 2007 MegaFlorestais meeting of public forest agency leaders dedicated to advancing frank dialogue on transitions in forest governance. Leaders of forest agencies…
RRI and GAFC create new partnership
RRI partners met with representatives of the Global Alliance for Community Forestry (GAFC) in February in San Jos?, Costa Rica and Beijing, China. Representatives agreed…
Data on the status of forest tenure and policy in Vietnam released
RECOFTC shared new data on the status of forest tenure and policy in Vietnam with the Deputy Director General of the Vietnam Department of Forestry,…
Study analyzes market conditions and obstacles faced by African forest communities
A new paper from Forest Trends analyzes market conditions and obstacles faced by forest communities in Africa in a new report: Forest Products Trade between…
Conference highlights role of rights and governance in advancing socio-economic development of forest areas
RRI and Sida sponsored a conference on the role of rights and governance in advancing the social and economic development of forest areas in developing…
Recommendations issued on supporting community forest management and enterprise
Representatives from community forest enterprises and 40 countries issued recommendations for supporting community forest management and enterprise during the international conference in Brazil last July….
Study examines the experiences of countries in decentralized forest governance
A new paper from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Forest Trends and RRI examines the experience of federal countries in managing their decentralized systems…
Study reveals rising role of local communities in protecting forests
A new paper from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on forest-based grassroots movements in Latin America concludes that local communities can become effective forest…
ATEMs studies conducted across Africa identify alternative models accelerate pro-poor growth
RRI conducted case studies of Alternative Tenure and Enterprise Models (ATEMs) in community forest enterprises in Ghana, Cameroon, the Gambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
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