RECOFTC, in partnership with ICRAF, has developed a regional training manual on agroforestry for climate-resilient landscapes with the objective to train future extensionists and practitioners working on agroforestry. To ensure the efficacy of the manual, each training sessions has been tested with a range of audiences at national and international levels. These include mid-level government officers, NGO staff and academics from Thailand, Myanmar and Viet Nam.

Community forestry has great potential to improve the welfare of the estimated 450 million impoverished people living in and around forests in Asia. But the extent to which this potential is realized depends strongly upon whether communities are able to secure the benefits that community managed forests generate, and whether these actually reach the poorest at the community level. The real benefits obtained in return for the time and energy expended by communities in forest management helps to gain their long-term commitment to sustainable forest management.

Developed by ICRAF as part of the ASFCC program, these guidelines were adopted by AMAF in October 2018 and seek to provide technical support to ASEAN Member States pursuing agroforestry development. 

Dr. Juan Pulhin reports how the forest sector is addressing this challenge with some ambitious targets that include: uplands poverty halved in 15 years; forests under sustainable management, within 10 years; healthy forest-based industries, within 5 years in this report.

The project covers two pilot sites encompassing 41,000 ha of forest land: Vinh Tu Commune in Quang Tri Province and Huong Son District in Ha Tinh Province. Both sites are commercially used forest and have potential for a certification mechanism. The certification project presumes that ecosystem services can be provided alongside sustainable forest management. Innovatively, the pilot test will help develop national standards and indicators for ecosystem certification.

This literature study, conducted under a collaborative framework between NAFRI and RECOFTC, was developed to analyze the status of community contribution to forest resource management in Lao PDR and the modes and extent that communities are or have been involved in the different applied models. The report aims to give an overview of community based forest initiatives up to now, analyze lessons, challenges and opportunities and give guidance for future work.

In Thailand, COVID-19 has made life harder for communities, many of which are already facing droughts, stagnant wage growth and rising poverty. Poverty rates had already risen in 2016 and 2018 in Thailand, according to the World Bank.  Now, with large parts of the economy shuttered or slowed because of the crisis, poor families are struggling as incomes vanish.

Debate over the potential of NTFPs for achieving ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation has grown in the past decade. Concern has been raised that NTFP activities may not always provide the poor with the expected benefits, and could in some cases even act as a poverty trap (see discussion in Overview paper). Considering these concerns, the objective of this publication is to share experiences on how innovative approaches have led to successful outcomes such as increased access of poor forest dwellers to resources and markets, increased participation, and benefit sharing.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ပထမဆုံးဒေသခံပြည်သူအစုအဖွဲ့ပိုင်သစ်တောအခြပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းကို ဒေသခံပြည်သူများကိုယ်တိုင် ဦးဆောင်ပြီး ရွှေရိုးမ သစ်တောအခြေပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းလုပ်ကိုင်နေပါသည်။အဆိုပါလုပ်ငန်းသည် တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိသော အာရှဆိုင်ရာ သစ်တောစီမံအုပ်ချုပ်မှုနှင့် ကုန်သွယ်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အပိုင်း (၃) စီမံကိန်း (Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade-III project RAFT-3) ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည့် ဂွမြို့နယ် ဒေသခံပြည်သူများသည်စတင်ဖွဲ့စည်းတည်ထောင်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ဤလက်ကမ်းစာစောင်သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ သစ်တောအခြေပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ကြုံတွေ့နေသည့်အခက်အခဲများ နှင့် ရရှိနေသည့်အခွင့်အလမ်းများအကျဉ်းချုပ်ကိုဖော်ပြထားပ

In many Asian countries, communities and smallholders are faced with barriers to exercising their tenure rights and to making a living from selling timber and other forest products. This study puts forward an effort to respond to the issue of restrictions, in the form of regulatory barriers, in the pursuit of sustainable forest management.

Under present and foreseeable economic and social trends in the Asia-Pacific region, can we achieve sustainable forest management and better realize the potential of forests and forestry to contribute to improved human well-being? 

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