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Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Cambodia

Reports & Research
oktober, 2014
Cambodia

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.

Community Forestry: A National Approach to Safeguard Information Systems (SIS)

Policy Papers & Briefs
oktober, 2014
South-Eastern Asia

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.

Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Nepal

Reports & Research
oktober, 2014
Nepal

Changing weather patterns, declining agricultural productivity and health impacts have already spurred adaptive responses in communities across Nepal. Local coping strategies currently being employed include: crop diversification, rainwater collection, grass cultivation in forest areas, shifting natural resource based livelihoods to livestock, seasonal migration (to urban areas), storing grain seed fodder and grasses as well as a number of practices specifically related to sustainable forest management.

A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

Manuals & Guidelines
september, 2014
Global

Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits. This handbook presents the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), which provides a flexible and affordable framework for countries to rapidly identify and analyse FLR potential and locate special areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level.

Forests under Pressure: Local Responses to Global Issues

Journal Articles & Books
september, 2014
Cambodia
Nepal
Thailand
Global

The new book Forests under Pressure: Local Responses to Global Issues is the third major publication produced by the Special Project World Forests, Society and Environment (WFSE) of the International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO). The book was launched at the WFSE Technical Session during the IUFRO World Congress, October 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and is the result of the collaborative work of over 140 scientists and experts, as well as over 60 reviewers.

Stories of Change 2008-2013 and Annual Report 2012-2013

Institutional & promotional materials
augustus, 2014
South-Eastern Asia

The stories in this report illustrate the invaluable contributions being made by community members, pioneering government personnel and others who are actively participating in forest management – leading to improved livelihoods, and more equity and a fairer share of benefits. The stories highlight the challenges faced and opportunities created by people in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam who are promoting community forestry.

Fundamentals of Viable Community Forestry Business Models

Reports & Research
augustus, 2014
Indonesia
Cambodia
Laos
Nepal
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
South-Eastern Asia

Research from seven countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in the Asia-Pacific region shows that sustainable practices are inherent to the community forestry enterprise (CFE) business model and vital for communities to sustain and enhance their livelihoods. Preliminary research findings based on two cases in Lao PDR and Thailand are shared in this working paper.

Quilombo de Erepecuru: la libertad de la tierra conquistada

Reports & Research
juni, 2014
Brazil

Los quilombolas -descendientes de los esclavos negros- de Erepecuru (Brasil) viven en el medio de la selva amazónica, en una región que abriga el mayor mosaico de áreas protegidas del mundo que incluyen 12,8 millones de hectáreas de unidades de conservación estatales, 1,3 millón de hectáreas de unidades de conservación federales, 7,2 millones de hectáreas de Tierras Indígenas.

ไผ่กับวิถีชีวิตคนไทย: องค์ความรู้และรูปแบบการจัดการของท้องถิ่น

Reports & Research
januari, 2014
Thailand

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