In recent years, the call of civil society organizations to formalize rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples to forests has been growing louder. They argue that formalizing local forest rights will have positive outcomes for livelihoods as well as forest conservation. In response to these calls, many governments have started forest reforms. This has become known as the forest tenure transition.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2019Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2021Global
This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2020Thailand
รายงานการศึกษานโยบายกฎหมายและสถานะการถือครองที่ดินป่าไม้ของเกษตรกรรายย่อยในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาตินี้เป็นผลงานที่เกิดจากเรียบเรียงเอกสารมือสอง การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการทำงานในพื้นที่ภาคสนามร่วมกันระหว่าง รีคอฟ อาจารย์ ดร.รัชนี โพธิแท่น และคณะนักศึกษาปริญญาโท คณะวนศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์ ตัวแทนชุมชนในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ และเครือข่ายประชาสังคมเพื่อการจัดการป่าอย่างยั่งยืนและเป็นธรรม (เฟล็กที) เพื่อรวบรวมข้อมูลทั้งทางด้านวิชาการนโยบาย ข้อมูลเชิงปริมาณ และการสะท้อนมุมมองของผู้ที่เกี่ยวข้องในประเด็นของการถือครองที่ดินป่าในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ"
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Applying a Rights Perspective
Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2011Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, IndiaThis report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2021Thailand
Thailand is undergoing an important development in its forestry laws. When the Community Forest Act B.E. 2562 was passed in 2019, Thailand had for the first time an official umbrella law to recognize community forestry. Subordinate laws still need to be developed to further clarify the Act for its implementation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2021Panama
Meeting sustainable development goals requires policies that account for interrelatedness in social and environmental issues such as land tenure and deforestation. This work takes advantage of a nationwide titling campaign in Panama to explore the effect of private titling on forest cover across a heterogeneous landscape covering all stages of forest transition and diverse tenure arrangements.
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Aporte de las acciones FLEGT para el fortalecimiento de las opciones de la Estrategia Nacional REDD+ en Panamá
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2018Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, ColombiaLa Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en convenio con el Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), ha buscado determinar en qué medida las acciones para el fortalecimiento del Programa FLEGT (aplicación de las leyes, gobernanza y comercio forestales) podrán contribuir a la mitigación del cambio climático en el contexto de REDD+ (Estrategia para la reducción de emisiones por deforestación y degradación de bosques).
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Policy Papers & BriefsJune, 2018CongoRépublique du Congo entre dans sa deuxième phase dite phase d’investissement de la REDD+. Ainsi un Plan d’Investissement de la Stratégie Nationale REDD+ a été élaboré pour la période de 2018-2025 qui sera mis en œuvre sur la base d’une synergie intersectorielle appropriée, au regard des interventions sectorielles accrues que suscitera la mise en œuvre des projets.
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Based on the Case Study in Zagatala district
Reports & ResearchOctober, 2014AzerbaijanIn the Republic of Azerbaijan forested areas cover 1,021 hectares of the land, which is 11.8% of the country’s territory. In the 18th-19th centuries however, this figure stood at 30- 35%. The per capita forest area is 0.12 hectares, which is 4 times less (0.48 hectares) than the average international indicator.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2020Azerbaijan
Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan derives from the project on the state of forests in the Caucasus and Central Asia and presents the forest resources and the forest sector of Azerbaijan, including trends in, and pressures on forests. The overview describes policies and institutions of forest sector in Azerbaijan and major challenges the sector faces as well as policy responses in place or planned.
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