In late February representatives from the tribes of Manipur met during a consultation “On Tribals' Land” Forests & Natural Resources.” Participants expressed their concerns over…
Read the full report from NFFPFW on the Forest Peoples Programme website here.
The ActIn late 2006″ India enacted the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act. This was the culmination of decades of…
Two articles that appeared recently in the Bangkok Post highlight the inadequacies of Thailand’s Community Forest Bill (CFB)” which passed the National Legislative Assembly in…
On February 28th and 29th” RRI and Peking University hosted a two-day international conference on tenure and regulatory reform in China. The event included participants…
Conflict between forest-dwelling tribals and the forest department continues” most recently in a series of violent conflicts in the Sabarkantha district of Gujarat in western…
On February 26th and 27th” RRI convened a series of meetings in Beijing to plan collaborative work over the next several years among RRI Partners…
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries (REDD) can be an effective tool for addressing the challenges of climate change. By paying poor countries to…
Over the last few months” REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) has quickly emerged as one of the most prominent mechanisms under consideration for…
A new report launched in Monrovia today” proposes formalizing customary Liberian land ownership by registering it as private property. This would signal the launch of…
This commentary on the Thailand Community Forest Bill passed on November 21″ 2007 was authored by Matthew Weatherby and Somying Soonthornwong of the THailand Collaborative…
In early December” RRI Partners hosted a workshop in Douala” Cameroon to review and share information on the status of tenure and rights of forest…
Although they defend their overall policy toward forestry and development in the Congo” the World Bank recently admitted certain ommissions in forestry reforms that would…
On November 21st the Thai National Legislative Assembly passed a community forestry bill that grants legal rights to forest communities to preserve and manage forest…
The 43rd Council Session of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) was held November 5-10″ 2007 in Yokohama Japan. This was the first Council session…
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…
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…
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…
International Conference on Community Forest Management and Enterprises: Global Issues and Opportunities Rio Branco” Acre” Brazil July 15 – 20″ 2007 Organizedby the Rights and…
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…
Forest Peoples Programmehas recently published a new report highlighting the potential threatsto Indigenous Peoples and local communities from climate changemitigation initiatives like “Avoided Deforestation” (AD)…
A new opinion article in the Wall Street Journal highlights bold policyand institutional forest sector reforms in China and laggingimplementation of JFM in India. China…
A new IUCN article explores the ambivalent relation between conservation” and the NGOs that promote it” and human rights and democratization. It will be available…
This week in Vietnam” IUCN is co-sponsoring a conference on the role of non-timber forest products in poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. Conducted with the…