Case study excerpt from PUSHBACK: Local Power” Global Realignment
This study examines the experience of federal countries in managing their decentralized systems of forest governance. More than three quarters of developing countries and nations…
Forest-based conflict is one of the major global challenges for the international forestry agenda together with poverty” climate change” conservation” and biofuels. In this paper”…
Acting as the ITTO-CSAG co-chair” presented on the July 2011 Forest Tenure” Governance” and Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia in a Changing Context conference…
CSAG would like to thank the Government of Japan and the ITTO for the warm hospitality shown. We would like to thank the Executive Director…
Lessons and findings regarding customary practices and Africa's forest tenure reform process
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,…
¿Podemos ser autónomos? Pueblos indígenasvs. Estado en Latinoamérica reúne dos documentos: el primero” “Dilemas y desafíos de la autonomía territorial indígena en Latinoamérica” de Pablo…
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) “Listening” Learning and Sharing Launch” (LLSL) was designed as an “ear to the ground” for hearing the assessments and…
May 2009 briefing on the protests of AIDESEP and other organizations in the Peruvian Amazon.
According to the most recent census” the Térraba people number approximately 750 persons. In 1956″ they were granted title to part of their traditional territory….
Like all forest enterprises” community forestry enterprises (CFEs) have a mixed record” with numerous cases of successes as well as failures. As the experience in…
Tenure Trends alerts the global develop community to important news” events and research findings regarding forest tenure” rights and development in the world's forests. This…
Baka” Bagyeli and Bakola forest people – together with their local support NGOs – have been conducting consultations in southern Cameroon to inform their communities…
Samuel Nnah's presentation for the REFACOF planning meeting (English).
Over the past 20 years” the region reviewed in this report – South East Asia stretching from Laos across to Indonesia – has experienced major…
This document summarizes the key recommendations which emerged from a State Level Workshop on Forest Rights Act with a specific focus on the recognition of…
This analytical brief focuses on land-use plans concerning indigenous lands of the Kampar Peninsula.
This paper provides a retrospective review of a new RBA-centred approach that has been applied in practice” particularly in three countries: namely Uganda” Ghana and…
This paper is part of a study by RECOFTC that aims to acquire a better understanding of the situation of forest tenure and the implementation…
A new study released today in Washington, DC and Beijing suggests that one of the world’s largest and “greenest” paper companies, in concert with local…