In response to community requests to clarify resource rights to Brazil nut trees in Bolivia, RRI partners Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) trained community…
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Indigenous leaders, NGO representatives and government officials from Latin America discuss the implications of consolidating indigenous territories for local communities
In a workshop held in Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous leaders, NGO representatives, government officials and forest experts from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, and Nicaragua…
RRI and partners participate in the first Meeting of the Steering Committee on REDD and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
In Costa Rica, Intercooperation, Forest Trends, La Asociaci?n Coordinadora Ind?gena y Campesina de Agroforester?a Comunitaria de Centroam?rica (ACICAFOC), and International Union for Conservation of Nature…
An analysis on the impacts of Bolivia’s forest reforms and perspectives from those affected
RRI collaborator Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario (CEDLA) latest publication, The Map of Actors Involved in the Discussions and Design of…
Nepali Prime Minister concedes to public pressure and cancels inauguration of the Guarishanker National Park
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FECOFUN and Intercooperation lobby Nepali officials to include community ownership of forests in the state’s constitution
RRI partners the Federation of community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) and Intercooperation met with senior Nepali politicians to lobby for community ownership to be included…
Indonesian civil society engages the Indonesian government and private sector on advancing policies that conserve the environment and protect local communities
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Nepali government officials, civil society, and forestry experts discuss the status of forest restructuring and future strategies for accelerating progress
In Nepal, civil society organizations, government officials, forestry experts and community forestry user groups convened to analyze the present status of forest restructuring and to…
RRI supports the first large scale survey of China’s Forest Tenure Reform
A new analysis, China?s Forest Tenure Reforms: Impacts and implications for choice, conservation, and climate change, summarizes results of the first large scale survey of…
RRI partners FPP and collaborator CED provide a supplementary report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Cameroon’s failure to uphold international law
The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) provide a supplementary report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of…
RRI analysizes the status, risks, operational lessons, and impacts of recognizing rights to natural resources in Mozambique
RRI?s latest working paper, Reviewing the Status, Risks, Operational Lessons and Impacts of Recognizing Rights to Natural Resources in Mozambique, provides an analysis of the…
Green Advocates assess Liberia’s timber industry and its implications for Liberia’s community forestry and REDD policies
Green Advocates’ latest report, An Assessment of Liberian Forest Area, Dynamics, FDA Concession Plans, and their Relevance to Revenue Projectionprovides a historical overview of the…
Key forest stakeholders develop a shared advocacy strategy to support community tenure rights in Cameroon
In Cameroon, key parliamentarians, government officials from Cameroon’s Ministery of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF), opinion leaders, traditional chiefs, NGOs, and RRI developed an advocacy strategy…
ITTO presents key analysis and and recommendations for community forest governance
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) latest tropical forest update (volume 19, number 2) presents key analysis and recommendations for enhancing community forestry.
CSAG adopts a new workplan to advance ITTO’s efforts in promoting effective community forestry
The new governance team of the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) held a panel discussion on policy recommendations…
CARE, FECOFUN, and Forest Watch Ghana share lessons learned from the application of procedural rights to natural resource management in Nepal, Uganda and Ghana
CARE, the Federation of community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN), and Forest Watch Ghana, with support from RRI, published the report, From Needs to Rights, which…
Cameroon’s indigenous Bagyeli people map land use areas to ensure their rights are protected
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Economic Development (CED) worked with the indigenous Bagyeli people in Cameroon to map the community’s use of…
RECOFT holds a press conference to address the lack of equitable social protection and benefits
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) held a press conference to address the lack of equitable social protection and benefits in forest-carbon markets. Discussions…
CIFOR publishes a study on best practices for nut management on community controlled lands in Bolivia
Following a workshop on best practices in nut management on community controlled lands, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published a study entitled El…
Sharing experiences and drawling lessons on natural resource management
Intercooperation organized a workshop in Mali to enhance local conventions of natural resource management. At the workshop, participants shared their local their resource management methods,…
The indigenous Surui people of the Amazon basin gain legal ownership of forest-carbon
According to a legal review commissioned by RRI partners Forest Trends, the indigenous Surui people of the Amazon basin have legal ownership of the forest-carbon…
A new report highlights the issues and relationship between tenure, forests, and livelihoods in Guatemal
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences ( FLACSO-Guatemala) produced two new reports highlighting the issues and relationship…
RRI examines links between human rights protection, biodiversity, and natural resource conservation
A new publication co-sponsored by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Rights-based approaches: Exploring Issues…
Intercooperation outlines strategies for addressing the negative effectsd of climate change on Nepali forest communities
Intercooperation’s latest report, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal?s Forest Sector: How Can Rural Communities Benefit, outlines possible strategies for addressing the negative…
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