RRI Partner Forest Peoples Programme(FPP) reports about the difficulties faced by forest dwellers in India.Their situation was supposed to improve after the adoption of a…
CIFOR's Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) has recently received major support from DFID to further research on the role of tropical forests in poverty alleviation….
Padang (ANTARA News) – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi)is urging the central government and all regional administrations inIndonesia to implement a “forest cutting…
On May 14″ RECOFTC organized and hosted a roundtable discussion on the Community Forest Bill in Thailand. TheCommunity Forest Bill in Thailand is important for forest-dependentrural…
Forest People Programme (FPP) analayzes the seventh UN Forum on Forests: UNFF Fails Indigenous Peoples Again. Inan analysis of the culmination of seven years of…
The World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)has published a series of nine Working Papers on the state ofCompensation for Environmental Services in three continents – Africa”Asia and…
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During the 42nd session of the International Tropical Timber Council”which took place in Port Moresby” Papua New Guinea last week” the CivilSociety and Advisory Group…
China Daily published the following article today” highlighting theresponsibility of Western markets in the loss of forest cover intropical areas. “Western consumption 'causes forest shrinkage'…
At the April meetings in New York” the Board of Directors unanimously resolved to welcome Civic Response as a Parter of RRI. Civic Response is…
La Paz – Last week CIFOR held an international workshop on community forestry and promoting community forest management” from April 23 – 25 in Santa…
Monday” April 23 two side-events at the UN Forum on Forestshighlighted the importance of community forestry and small-scale forestenterprise for sustainable development and local well-being….
Yaounde” Cameroon – Government officials” researchers” and civil society leaders from West and Central Africa convened today in Yaounde to share experiences and assess the…
In the same week as a front-page article in the Sunday Washington Post” the March 31st edition of The Economist newspaper also carries an article…
In the last week a controversy has emerged in Uganda over the governmental project to turn over part of the Mabira Central Reserve Forest to…
On Monday” December 17th” the Department for International Development (DFID)” United Kingdom” announced major support for the Rights and Resources Initiative through 2012. MPGareth Thomas”…
Conservation goes back to its roots Ashish Kothari International Herald Tribune 16 November 2006 DawaTsering Sherpa never thought he would see this day. Standing in…
On November 8″ 2006 the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization(ITTO) gave a formal presentation of the Rights and ResourcesInitiative…
In October” an informal group of public forest agency leaders met at the Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford” Pennsylvania (USA). The meeting was…
Forest plantations” highlighted in the September 2006 edition of arborvitae” the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter. Including: Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly….
September 25th to 27th” founding partners of the RedForestal met in the ICAES center in San José” Costa Rica. The main objective of the workshop was…
Communities that live and work in forest settings would seemunlikely sites for conflict. But tension exists even in these quietrural settings – most commonly reflected…
External reviews find most logging in Papua New Guinea illegal” unsustainable” and providing little benefit to the state and forest community. A new report on…