In response to recently-observed climatic changes in Cameroon” RRI Partner CIFOR organized Forest Day Cameroon” held in Yaoundé on 24 April 2008. The occasion” intended…
Liz Alden Wily has recently written a paper entitled “Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Powers over Property. Devolved land governance – the key…
Somini Sengupta reports on the human impact of India’s burgeoning wildlife preserves in an article from the April 16th edition of The New York Times….
Darren Schuettler has recently penned an article for here.
Last week in Monrovia” Liberia” RRI and Green Advocates hosted meetings that have spurred dialogue among policymakers and civil society about the future of ownership…
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.
New York Times reporter Andy Revkin reports on the murder of Julio García Agapito” a community leader from the Madre de Dios region of Peru…
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…
Following the successful Forest Day workshop held in Bali during the UNFCCC COP 13 meetings in December 2007″ CIFOR and counterparts are now organizing a…
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…
On Wednesday” February 6 BBC news hosted a live radio broadcast posing the questions: “Is land ownership the root of Africa's problems? Should governments bring…
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…
A new occasional paper from CIFOR analyzes the role of forest-based social movements in shaping national forest policy and directing international attention to community tenure…
A recent publication by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) addresses the potential impact on forest communities…
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…