This Policy Paper acknowledges the need to balance the three imperatives of production, protection and participation. It also underscores the involvement of beneficiaries at an early stage of project development through to implementation and management to ensure that investments in the forestry sector are sustainable.

These Rules, made by the Minister for Agriculture, upon consultation with the Central Agricultural Board under section 48 of the Agriculture Act, require farmers to establish and maintain farm forestry on at least ten percent of every agricultural land holding. One of the objectives of the Rules is to preserve and sustain the environment and combating climate change and global warming. Other declared objectives include: the conservation of water, soil and biodiversity; the protection of riverbanks, shorelines, riparian and wetland areas; and the sustainable production of wood.

If 2009 was the end of the hinterland and the beginning of a new globalized forest era, 2010 was a year of pushback. Worldwide, the news was full of reports of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples pushing back at land grabs and shaping policy at the national and global levels, and of governments countering and trying to contain community rights. Some governments and private investors accepted or even embraced the new players at the table and began to promote fairer business and conservation models.

La presente Ley tiene por objeto establecer las acciones, normas y procedimientos para la prevención y lucha contra incendios en áreas rurales y forestales, tanto en bosques nativos como de cultivo, en el territorio de la Provincia de Jujuy. En este marco, la Ley prevé la elaboración del Mapa de Zonificación y del Plan Anual de Prevención y Lucha contra Incendios en Areas Rurales y Forestales; asimismo crea el Fondo de Prevención de Incendios.

This lesson brief explores the decentralization of wildlife user rights and their impact on local communities in Tanzania.

It is an old English custom that on your 21st birthday, you are given the ‘keys to the door’, symbolising your right to control property. As the Forest Peoples Programme completes its 21st year, it is finally becoming clear to policy-makers that the key to sustainable, equitable and climate-friendly development of forests is respect for the rights of forest peoples, including their right to ‘property’ – to own and control their ancestral forests, " writes Marcus Colchester in Forest Peoples Programme's newly released Annual Report for 2010.

This Ordinance, made under the Land Planning and Development (Guernsey) Law, 2005, implements provisions of the Act by, among other things: giving definitions of selected development operations including operations in relation to conservation areas and operations in relation to protected trees; registration of planning applications and publicity of such applications; and material considerations in respect of selected matters including protected trees.

Implements: Land Planning and Development (Guernsey) Law, 2005. (2011-03-10)

Tree-Based Carbon Storage in Developing Countries: Neglect of the Social Sciences Jon D. Unruha a Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Postconflict Recovery, and
Land Tenure in Liberia
Leif Brottem a; Jon Unruh b
a Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison b Department of Geography, McGill
University,

This publication provides a summary of the current situation of forest tenure globally, drawing primarily on the forest tenure assessments carried out by FAO in rent years and informed by several other sources. Based partly on the documents produced by the forest tenure assessment and partly on experiences described in the wider literature, the publication then reviews specific experiences of forest tenure and tenure reform, drawing lessons about what has worked and why, and identifying potential risks associated with particular approaches.

This Act, consisting of 65 Sections divided into six Parts and completed by two Schedules, aims at establishing a target to reduce Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions; to promote collaboration, cooperation and innovation in the Victorian response to climate change by strengthening the role of communities and other measures; to provide for a strategic response by the Government of Victoria to climate change through a Climate Change Adaptation Plan; to facilitate Victoria's contribution to national and international carbon sequestration efforts; to provide for the creation of forestry rights,