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…
Bangkok” September 3″ 2007 A challenge to experts opens conference on poverty and forests. Crippling poverty” violent conflict” insecure ownership” restricted access to basic resources…
Anecdotal evidence and some country case studies have pointed to a strong coincidence between areas of remaining high forest cover and high poverty rate. A…
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 meeting was held in Cagayan de Oro” Philippines on July 26 and 27. It brought together leading thinkers from Indonesia and the Philippines to…
International Conference on Community Forest Management and Enterprises: Global Issues and Opportunities Rio Branco” Acre” Brazil July 15 – 20″ 2007 Organizedby the Rights and…
RRI partner Forest Trends published a new report in their series on China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region. The report is titled Environmental Aspects…
Forest Peoples Programmehas recently published a new report highlighting the potential threatsto Indigenous Peoples and local communities from climate changemitigation initiatives like “Avoided Deforestation” (AD)…
A new opinion article in the Wall Street Journal highlights bold policyand institutional forest sector reforms in China and laggingimplementation of JFM in India. China…
A new IUCN article explores the ambivalent relation between conservation” and the NGOs that promote it” and human rights and democratization. It will be available…
This week in Vietnam” IUCN is co-sponsoring a conference on the role of non-timber forest products in poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. Conducted with the…
Vietnam – June 13th 2007 – A four-day international conference beganyesterday in Ha Noi to explore the role of non-timber forest product(NTFP) in poverty alleviation…
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…
See the article at Milenio.com (Spanish)
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…
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'…
The following article” found on amazonia.org” sums up topics discussed at a seminar on Peoples of the Forest in the Amazon. The main innovation is…
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…