Soil degradation and subsequent amelioration were studied on soil chronosequences of old-growth forest, abandoned fields, and young and mature conifer plantations on the Oak Ridges Moraine, an environmentally vulnerable landform near Toronto threatened by encroaching urban development. The chronosequences reflect a history of pre-settlement deforestation, exploitive pioneer agriculture and ensuing land abandonment that led to soil fallowing and/or wind erosion in the 1920s followed by soil stabilization after extensive planting with red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.).

In The Gambia?s Kombo district land-grabbing for settlement is the norm. However, one community has stood against this, asserting their traditional rights to their forest, and carrying out extensive conservation work to preserve it for future generations.

A CTA study visit to agroforestry projects in Malawi and Zambia...

Scenario methods can be used to anticipate the future and expand the creativity of people thinking about complex forest management situations. This manual describes the use of scenarios with multiple stakeholders, with examples drawn from community-based forest management. Four classes of scenario methods are described: visions, projections, pathways and alternative scenarios. Examples of rapid participatory techniques relevant to scenario methods are also summarized.

In tropical forests, RIL has been tested and appliedon a small scale for more than a decade. Various timber-producing countries in Asia and the Pacific have recognized its potential for advancing sustainable forest management. Yet many questions remain and the lack of sound and appropriate information continues to impede the widespread application of RIL. This book helps fill that critical information gap.

Adama Ouedraogo dit Grand Passage a 70 ans. Avec tant de réalisations à son actif, on pourrait croire que l’heure de la retraite a sonné. Mais il n’en est rien et son système agro-écologique, centré autour de l’arbre, est un modèle que bien des visiteurs

CIFOR facilitated 27 communities in the Upper Malinau watershed to develop agreements about their village boundaries and map them through participatory methods. Decentralization reforms created new values of forest resources and uncertainties that increased conflict over local resources. The authors report on the nature of these conflicts, the stability of agreements and the factors affecting how agreements were reached.

A Bougnounou, petit village situé au sud du Burkina, la forêt c’est le paradis des femmes : grâce à de nombreuses activités bien réglementées, le groupement des bûcheronnes de Bougnougou gagnent des millions et assurent le renouvellement de la forêt.

Overview of CIFOR’s research and achievements for 2001 including complete financial statements, listings of donors and partners, key projects, staff and publications. The Report also provides the global, regional and national perspectives of CIFOR’s work. Feature stories focus on a range of forest issues, including: carbon, biodiversity, women and forest livelihoods, decentralization in Africa, secondary forests in Asia, forests and fires, forests and health, community forestry, non timber forest products, watersheds in Central America and forest policy in China.

This book is a compilation of the abstracts of in-house and external publications produced in the year 2001 by CIFOR scientists and their collaborators. The abstracts are grouped into seven themes: general, biodiversity, forest governance and community forestry, forest management, non-timber forest products, plantations and rehabilitation of degraded forests, policy and extrasectoral issues that represent CIFOR's research activities. Indexes are provided by author and keyword.

This book focuses primarily on changes that have taken place in the Malinau area in East Kalimantan in recent years. The Punan Malinau, who inhabit the area, are former nomads who subsist on a wide range of forest-oriented activities, including swidden agriculture, hunting and the collection of and trade in forest products. During the past ten years, the arrival of a growing number of powerful outsiders, including NGO's, timber and mining companies, has contributed to increasing competition for land and for various new sources of income.