This annual report highlights RECOFTC's key achievements for the 2011 and 2012 year. 

Insight: Notes from the Field is a response to this need, and with this publication, we aim to give practitioners a forum to share field level cases and lessons in Community Forestry (CF) or Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).  In this edition of Notes from the Field, there are inspirational stories on Community Forestry in Thailand, development of Village Forest Councils in India, experiences on Public Hearing and Public Auditing in community user groups in Nepal, and how to improve buffer zone co-management in protected areas of Vietnam.

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? 

Applications are now being accepted for a regional learning workshop on applying a participatory development communication apporach in forest landscapes in the Asia and Pacific region. The workshop is an event of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Communication Network.

This brief, produced jointly by FAO, UNEP and RECOFTC, outlines the ways in which forests contribute to climate change adaptation in the Asian region. It details current climate changes impacting forest ecosystems in Asia; key components of climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management; the current status of climate change adaptation and forests in Asia; and the way ahead.

Overview:

Community forestry supports local level climate change adaptation by enhancing resilience in multiple ways: supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks and regulating microclimates. However, adaptation planning has, by and large, not included community forestry as a viable climate change adaptation tool.

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านเปร็ดไนไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

Forest-based conflict is one of the major global challenges for the international forestry agenda together with poverty, climate change, conservation, and biofuels. In this paper, we will estimate the scope of the problem for people and forests, identify the role of forest rights and tenure as part of the cause of and solution to conflict, and project future challenges.

Two-thirds of Viet Nam's land area of 33 million ha is mountainous. Almost half of the land area is classified as forest, with one-quarter of Viet Nam's 90 million people living near or in forest lands. Many of them belong to 53 ethnic minority groups. There is a high correlation between the incidence of poverty and forests. Forest tenure reforms initiated in the 1990s, have resulted in considerable diversification of tenure arrangements, with almost 30 percent of the forest land under management by local people, either by individual households or village communities. 

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านร่มโพธิ์ทองไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

There is a vast and unrecognized opportunity for community forestry to strengthen national resilience to climate change through diversifying rural livelihoods, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, advancing disaster risk reduction and regulating microclimates. However maximizing the role for community forestry in climate change is an area where clear guidance and recommendations are lacking. 

The introduction and safe use of chainsaws is arguably the biggest improvement in small-scale forestry harvesting. Felling timber with chainsaws can be accomplished over a relatively short period of time while requiring only a small investment – that is, if laws allow the use of this type of machinery and if service providers for training, maintenance and supply of spare parts, as well as additional support, is in place.