As seen on www.indiablooms.comWashington” May 30 (IBNS) New research released by the non-profit group Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) on Wednesday shows that hundreds of…
RRI sponsored a trip to Budhikhamari” Orissa” India for journalists interested in India's tenure reform process earlier this month (May 2012). For details on the…
As seen on ooskanews.com“There can be no prosperity without infrastructure” but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor. Past energy” water and transport strategies have…
As posted on Mongabay.com on May 16″ 2012 Despite a global trend towards urbanization some 1.2-1.7 billion people worldwide remain primarily dependent on forests for…
Cecile Ndjebet from Cameroon Ecology and REFACOF (African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests) on the work she is doing to promote women's rights…
Trust.org: The Word on Women – Africa’s Latest Land Rush: The Effect Of Land Grabs On Women’s Rights
As written by Kathambi Kinoti on Trust.org on February 13″ 2012. In Africa land rights are critical to economic power. In recent history” there have…
As written by Chris Lang and Andy White for REDD-Monitor.org on 11 August 2011. The role of women in protecting and managing forests is often…
As written by Bisong Etahoben for the Africa Review on 30 July 2011. African women want their governments to undertake reforms that will enable them…
As written by Amantha Perera for Inter Press Service (IPS) LOMBOK” Indonesia” Jul 13″ 2011 (IPS) – A 1993 forest act gave back Nepal its…
A study presented this week at the community rights conference in Lombok” Indonesia” suggests that granting greater control to local forest communities has been a…
As written by Anna Strom for the Secretariat for International Forestry Issues on 10 June 2011. Summary of the Seminar on global trends Reforming international…
Dear Friends” The work of the Forest Peoples Programme is to support indigenous peoples and other forest peoples to defend their human rights” in particular…
As written in a CIFOR press release on March 1″ 2011. BOGOR” Indonesia (March 1″ 2011). Women are the main users of forests in developing countries –…
As written by Rhett Butler on Mongabay.com Progress over the past 25 years in recognizing indigenous peoples’ rights to land and resources has been interrupted…
Regional workshops addressing government forestry classification practices were recently held in the towns of Edea and Kribi” Cameroon. The meetings were organized by Cameroon Ecology”…
In November, FECOFUN led RRI in setting new directions for community forestry in Nepal by building consensus and solidarity among forest user groups during a…
On September 28, 2008, the people of the Republic of Ecuador passed a new Constitution, seen as a historic document which recognizes both indigenous peoples’ land rights and livelihoods and the rights of nature.
An international team of scientists” including experts from Singapore” has proven for the first time that deforestation increases the risk of flood disasters” which kill…
An article published in the Hindu highlights the necessity to balance conservation and livelihoods concerns” so as not to alienate the communities who inhabit the…
The following is an excerpt from an article published in the Laotian newspaper Vientiane Times. The PM said he had once seen a photo of…
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'…
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…