This regional synthesis paper is part of an overall effort to share the knowledge gained in five years, from 2002 - 2007, of implementing the Small Grant Program for Operations to Promote Tropical Forests (SCPPTF). The findings, lessons, and recommendations presented here emerged from the grantees’ reflections, site visits, project documentation, and discussions and inputs from the eight in-country teams, as well as from the key staff in regional support organizations.

Social equity is the fairness of treatment of all concerned stakeholders according to an agreed set of principles, particularly in procedures used to form and implement policies and in the distribution of resources and costs. In order to understand the practical implementation of various dimensions of equity in forest management, two case studies were carried out in two community forests (CF) of Nepal, namely Chisapani CF of Nawalparasi district and Bandre CF in Syangja district.

This toolkit is designed to guide the business manager (or whoever is tasked with the daily operations of running the forest business) and other business staff through a process of identifying and assessing possible business risks.

In what is a big step towards commercial community forestry, Cambodia’s Forest Administration, in partnership with RECOFTC and with technical assistance and funding from the Wildlife Conservation Society, began pilot testing in 2008 community-based production forestry in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area. It is an innovation unlike any other in the region in which communities are allowed to set up forest-logging operations in buffer-zone forest.

Community forestry (CF) has been seen as an optimal method for dealing with the many challenges facing forests in Asia-Pacific region. Many stakeholders, however, are questioning whether CF is proving to be an effective way to improve the livelihoods of the community. This work examines why these doubts persist, putting forward recommendations for addressing barriers to CF development, focusing particularly on commercialization, with the rationale being that after tenure it is the driving force for successful CF.

สำหรับผู้ที่สนใจสถานการณ์การจัดการไผ่ ทั้งในพื้นที่ธรรมชาติและนอกพื้นที่ธรรมชาติ ศักยภาพและโอกาสของไผ่ในประเทศไทย รูปแบบและองค์ความรู้การจัดการไผ่อย่างยั่งยืนของชุมชนท้องถิ่น ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบายและแนวทางการจัดการไผ่อย่างยั่งยืน ...หนังสือเล่มนี้ ได้รวบรวมสาระสำคัญจากการประชุมแลกเปลี่ยนไผ่กับวิถีชีวิตของคนไทย ครั้งที่ 1: องค์ความรู้และรูปแบบการจัดการของท้องถิ่น ไว้อย่างครบถ้วน

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านท่าตะเภาไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

The Center for People and Forests' New Five Year Strategic Plan

Community forestry can be part of an approach that ensures important rights such as basic livelihood needs, forest access and tenure and participation in decision-making are met. It also provides a basket of multiple benefits with the potential to incentivise sustainable forest management whether or not carbon payments come through.

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านท่ากระดานไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

This is a presentation which covers why community forestry practitioners should be concerned with forest harvesting and the appropriate extraction systems to optimize livelihood benefits. This covers the full integratation of forest harvesting into appropriate forest management systems including best practices for harvesting, milling, and transportation.

"Twenty years ago when RECOFTC was born, community forestry was just emerging onto the global scene as a viable policy option to restore degraded forests and to provide livelihood support for local communities living adjacent to forests. These two objectives remain today, but to them has been added a plethora of other objectives including poverty alleviation, environmental services, equity and governance to name just a few. In short, community forestry, along with other forms of forestry, has become more complex."

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