Ce dépliant explique comment obtenir des plants de haute qualité.

In the past decade, understanding of the importance and role of monitoring in tropical forest management has changed significantly. Monitoring is no longer the exclusive purview of forest managers and scientists. Now local people are working with professionals to develop and implement programs together. This collaboration changes the dynamic of forest management, with monitoring assuming a central role by encouraging local people to ask questions about their forest and their forest-based livelihoods, think about change in a systematic way and respond with reasoned decision-making.

Farmers in Malawi remove woodlands to plant crops but they also derive a vast range of other basic needs from the surrounding forests. These miombo woodlands have until relatively recently always been vast in comparison to the human population and their needs. Over the years the woodlands and the way they have been used have changed, but their contribution for maintaining well being and providing peoples’ basic needs appears to have remained important.

Pada tanggal 20 Mei 2011, Pemerintah Indonesia menerbitkan Instruksi Presiden No. 10/2011 tentang penundaan penerbitan izin baru dan penyempurnaan tata kelola hutan alam primer dan lahan gambut, sebagai bagian dari kerjasama Indonesia dengan Pemerintah Kerajaan Norwegia, berdasarkan Surat Pernyataan Kehendak yang ditandatangani oleh kedua pemerintah pada tanggal 26 Mei 2010. Inpres yang menetapkan moratorium selama dua tahun terhadap izin hak pengusahaan hutan baru tersebut, menimbulkan wacana publik yang luas dan akan mempengaruhi kebijakan publik yang terkait.

CIFOR facilitated 27 communities in the Upper Malinau watershed to develop agreements about their village boundaries and map them through participatory methods. Decentralization reforms created new values of forest resources and uncertainties that increased conflict over local resources. We report on the nature of these conflicts, the stability of agreements and the factors affecting how agreements were reached.

As forest scientists widen their field of view and look at problems in a across-sectoral way, and with a sense of history, they start to ask, and aswer, more of the pressing questions. If they adopt an analytical, rather than a descriptive approach, they will make many new discoveries. The new policy environment in which forest science now has to operate reflects a growing concern about environmental change, locally and globally, and the need to control this through more sustainable development.

The project manager at Kalup National Park in Cameroon explains how local rainforest communities, who have lost their access to the park are being supported in finding new ways to earn income, and how the project is making them aware of the need to manage their community forests sustainably.