The Indigenous and Peasant Coordinator of Communal Agroforestry in Central America (ACICAFOC) created a social map of forest areas in Central America to help strengthen…
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CIFOR and the Government of Bolivia develop alternative tenure and market policies to enhance livelihoods and strengthen community tenure
In Bolivia, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Center for Labor and Agrarian Development Studies, and the Government of Bolivia analyzed new territorial…
Forest communities and local organizations create maps for recognizing customary lands
In Liberia, local NGOs Green Advocates and the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), with support from RRI parnter, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and HELVETAS, worked with…
FECOFUN Nepal and RECOFTC help produce an eight-point declaration on the future directions and actions to promote the rights and agendas of local communities engaged in community forestry
Federation of community forestry users of Nepal (FECOFUN Nepal) and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) supported a meeting of the Global Alliance of…
MegaFlorestais holds its 3rd Annual Meeting
During the 3rd annual MegaFlorestais meeting, forest agency leaders discussed avoided deforestation and the global bio-energy market, with a focus on REDD and carbon finance…..
FPP coordinates studies of land and forest laws in five Central African countries
The Forest Peoples Programme’s (FPP) latest study focuses on Burundi, Cameroon, DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda. Based on historical and legal arguments, the analyses highlight how…
Updated report on rights and accountability concerns in the proposed REDD initiatives reveal that existing intergovernmental proposals contain no clear commitments to address rights and equity issues
The Forest People’s Programme (FPP) released their report Seeing REDD: Forests, climate change mitigation and the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities just in…
At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Poland, RRI partners hold numerous side-events to promote the safeguarding of forest communities rights and interests
At the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forest Day 2 side event, RRI partners, the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the International Union…
RRI produces a policy brief exploring effective climate change mitigation and adaptation that human rights and development in forest areas
This policy brief provides negotiators, governments, and inter-governmental organizations a road map for ensuring that responses to climate change do not undermine national social and…
RRI and Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) organize the Oslo conference on Rights, Forests, and Climate Change
The conference provided the first major opportunity for advocates and policymakers to consider climate change mitigation and adaptation from a rights-based perspective. Participants discussed options…
Brazilian President Lula signs Executive Decree on Family and Community Forestry
The Ministry of Environment of Brazil sent an Executive Decree on Family and Community Forestry to President Lula. The Decree was signed into law on…
CIFOR and the Bolivian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources identify new alternative tenure and enterprise models
In Bolivia, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Bolivia have completed a…
Cameroonian community leaders, government representatives, and researchers discuss alternative models for tenure and enterprise in central African forests
Cameroonian community leaders, government representatives, researchers and members of the RRI coalition met in Ed?a, Cameroon to discuss alternative models for tenure and enterprise in…
RRI publishes a sequel to the 2002 report Who Owns the World’s Forests?, which analyzes statutory forest tenure in the world’s most forest countries
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…
RRI publishes a new global report reviewing the history of development intervention in forest areas and proposes new strategies for advancing forest rights
In this global report, Seeing People Through the Trees: Scaling up efforts to advance rights and address poverty,conflict and climate change, RRI reviews the history…
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…
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…
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….
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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