UNFF Fails Indigenous Peoples Again
UNFF Fails Indigenous Peoples Again

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…

ICRAF studies on Compensation for Environmental Services
ICRAF studies on Compensation for Environmental Services

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…

News from Papua New Guinea – FPCD and CSAG at ITTC 42
News from Papua New Guinea – FPCD and CSAG at ITTC 42

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…

Lao PDR: Government suspends land concessions
Lao PDR: Government suspends land concessions

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…

RRI welcomes Civic Response!
RRI welcomes Civic Response!

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…

Promoting community forest management in Bolivia
Promoting community forest management in Bolivia

La Paz – Last week CIFOR held an international workshop on community forestry and promoting community forest management” from April 23 – 25 in Santa…

RRI and community forestry at the UNFF
RRI and community forestry at the UNFF

Monday” April 23 two side-events at the UN Forum on Forestshighlighted the importance of community forestry and small-scale forestenterprise for sustainable development and local well-being….

Peru adopts new economic model for Amazonian timber industry
Peru adopts new economic model for Amazonian timber industry

JournalPeru.com – A future economic model handling the logging industry in Peru’s Amazon rainforest will unite exporting companies and native communities with new profit-sharing regulations”…

The Economist: Cambodian forests and China
The Economist: Cambodian forests and China

In the same week as a front-page article in the Sunday Washington Post” the March 31st edition of The Economist newspaper also carries an article…

India: Development preys on Mumbai's urban forest
India: Development preys on Mumbai's urban forest

Mumbai” India” is struggling to prevent its growing population of 17million from infringing on the world's largest urban forest. Thisthreatens the biodiversity of the forest…

Forests and the Millennium Development Goals
Forests and the Millennium Development Goals

ETFRN News: Forests and the Millennium Development Goals The Winter 2006-07 Issue of ETFRN News (No. 47-48) focuses on the role of forests in achieving…

War in the Heart of India
War in the Heart of India

War in the Heart of India: an enquiry into the ground situation in Dantewara District” Chhattisgarh A six member team of independent citizens from Delhi”…

12-17 March 2007: Meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon
12-17 March 2007: Meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon

March 12-17 2007″ RRI is hosting a series of meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon. Meetings will advance the work of the Alternative Tenure and Business Model…

DFID announces major support for RRI through 2012
DFID announces major support for RRI through 2012

On Monday” December 17th” the Department for International Development (DFID)” United Kingdom” announced major support for the Rights and Resources Initiative through 2012. MPGareth Thomas”…