In recent decades there has been a shift away from government control of forest land towards increasing access and ownership for indigenous groups, communities, individuals, and firms. This brief highlights this transition in statutory forest tenure from 2002-2008 in Asia. The brief focuses on forest land tenure, but tenure over other forest resources (timber, non-timber forest products, carbon, sub-soil mineral ores, etc.) is often just as important. Moreover, although the focus is only on tenure in this analysis, the regulatory framework is also critically important because it specifies the rules regarding land use and who gets access to what resources.
This Ghana context study brief is part of a larger body of research on alternative tenure and enterprise models (ATEMs) for Central and West Africa…
This presentation offers an overview of how tenure and market trends are changing and the role that community-based enterprise can play.
Tentative agenda for the International Conference on Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change, 17-18 August 2009, New Delhi, India.
This is the audited financial statement for Rights and Resources Group in 2006.
Rapidly growing world demand for food, fiber,and bioenergy could lead to a global land grab,with severe consequences for many of the world’spoorest people, particularly those…
A background paper for the conference "Towards a New Global Forest Agenda", held in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2007.
This report measures whether governments have continued to reduce their legal ownership and control of the world’s forests from 2002 – 2008, and assesses the implications of forest tenure change for forest peoples, governments, and the global community.
The questions of who owns the forests, who claims them, who has access to them and further, who should own them, are hotly contested in many forest regions of the world.
A website set up to "exchange clear, concise and up to date information" on Voluntary Partnership Agreement negotiations, with individual country pages that track VPA…
This study examines the experience of federal countries in managing their decentralized systems of forest governance.
Based on extensive desk research and fieldwork in three provinces, this paper reviews and analyzes the development of the Chinese regulatory frameworks that govern forest…
This paper examines the dispute resolution experiences in the US, UK and Ireland with respect to denial of applications for logging permits, and its possible…
This paper will introduce and discuss regulatory takings laws in the US and some European countries. It makes a series of recommendations on legislative reforms…