Conference on Tenure and Regulatory Reform in China
Conference on Tenure and Regulatory Reform in China

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…

Community forestry bill passed in Thailand
Community forestry bill passed in Thailand

On November 21st the Thai National Legislative Assembly passed a community forestry bill that grants legal rights to forest communities to preserve and manage forest…

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…

Cameroon's local forest management out on a limb
Cameroon's local forest management out on a limb

From CIFOR news” January 2006″ Number 40: Following many years of poor forest management under central government control” countries around the world are shifting forest…