A background paper for the conference "Towards a New Global Forest Agenda", held in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2007.
growth in the global economy placing significantconstraints and pressures on natural resourcessuch as forests.Increased access to information andcommunication will empower civil society andlocal communities to…
Forest areas have an integral role in the development agenda of the next several decades because of the myriad challenges that converge within their landscapes….
This report measures whether governments have continued to reduce their legal ownership and control of the world’s forests from 2002 – 2008, and assesses the implications of forest tenure change for forest peoples, governments, and the global community.
The questions of who owns the forests, who claims them, who has access to them and further, who should own them, are hotly contested in many forest regions of the world.
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…