La Paz – Last week CIFOR held an international workshop on community forestry and promoting community forest management” from April 23 – 25 in Santa…
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….
Yaounde” Cameroon – Government officials” researchers” and civil society leaders from West and Central Africa convened today in Yaounde to share experiences and assess the…
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”…
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…
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…
In the last week a controversy has emerged in Uganda over the governmental project to turn over part of the Mabira Central Reserve Forest to…
ADDIS ABABA” March 20 – Participatory forest management is proving a viable approach in the protection and maintenance of the environment in a country that…
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: an enquiry into the ground situation in Dantewara District” Chhattisgarh A six member team of independent citizens from Delhi”…
In the midst of the forest” it tops the charts in violence: Not eventhe Mayor has secure land tenure in Colniza (MT)” one of the…
This month” the UNFF Secretariat Online Forum is hosting a discussionon the benefits and challenges associated with community-based forestmanagement. The guest contributor for this discussion…
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…
In Niger” Trees and Crops Turn Back the Desert February 11″ 2007 Lydia Polgreen New York Times Guidan Bakoye” Niger — In this dust-choked region”…
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”…
On December 11th and 12th 2006″ Andy White presented at the US Forest Service Dialogue on Issues and Challenges for US forests and the US…
Conservation goes back to its roots Ashish Kothari International Herald Tribune 16 November 2006 DawaTsering Sherpa never thought he would see this day. Standing in…
On November 8″ 2006 the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization(ITTO) gave a formal presentation of the Rights and ResourcesInitiative…
In October” an informal group of public forest agency leaders met at the Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford” Pennsylvania (USA). The meeting was…
Forest plantations” highlighted in the September 2006 edition of arborvitae” the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter. Including: Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly….
September 25th to 27th” founding partners of the RedForestal met in the ICAES center in San José” Costa Rica. The main objective of the workshop was…
Communities that live and work in forest settings would seemunlikely sites for conflict. But tension exists even in these quietrural settings – most commonly reflected…
RRG led a series of state and national level workshops for the dissemination of a recently completed sector report” India: Unlocking Opportunities for Forest Dependent…
During the 11th five year plan period (2006-2010) China will carryout two reforms in forestry sector: to perfect reform of forest zoningsystem and to fully…