This briefing note REDD+ 2010: Moving Forward for People and Forests overviews progress made on REDD+ at the December 2009 Copenhagen climate talks. Designed to…
Tenure Trends alerts the global development community to important news” events and research findings regarding forest tenure” rights and development in the world's forests.
This is the executive summary brief of the full report “Does the Opportunity Cost Approach Indicate the Real Cost of REDD+? :Rights and Realities of…
This presentation offers an overview of the current status of REDD initiatives” stakeholder interests and expectations” and principles and criteria used to judge proposed REDD…
This presentation focuses on current operational policies associated with safeguards and recourse mechanisms for the World Bank and its associated initiatives.
This paper addresses the tenure fate of three commons: the 30 million hectares of pasturelands of Afghanistan which represent 45 percent of the total land…
This presentation was given at the 45th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) in Yokohama, Japan on 8 November 2009.
This note summarizes the history and current status of the CSAG and the updated governance structure, including institutional membership and leadership.
Presentation given at CSAG organized side event at the 45th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC).
The agenda for a side event organized by CSAG at the 45th Session of the International Tropical Timber Organization on "Post-Yaounde Conference Outcomes.
Indonesia Bahasa translation of “Who Owns the Forests of Asia? An introduction to the forest tenure transition in Asia, 2002-2008.”
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…