RRI co-organized a Tenure Analysis Workshop about ?Building a Collaborative Analysis of Global Forest Tenure? in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop gathered forest tenure analysts from…
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Local Nepali communities develop a common agenda to promote the next generation of forestry reforms
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