Permanent sample plots (PSP) are an important tool in monitoring forest dynamics and change. In Malinau Research Forest, East Kalimantan, 24 PSPs of 1 ha each were established and all trees with dbh = 20 cm were identified and their diameters were measured in 1998 prior to logging operations and were re-assessed in 2000 and 2004. Two logging systems were implemented during that period: reduced-impact logging (RIL) and conventional logging (CNV).

This paper provides the general objectives of the special issue: secondary forests in Asia: their diversity, importance and role in future environmental management. It provides a brief overview of the renewed attention to tropical secondary forests and sketches the history of research on this subject.

The diversity of C&I sets is often a cause for uncertainty and confusion, and probably one of the reasons for the still unsatisfactory acceptance of C&I as a support for implementation of sustainable forest management so far. In order to halt this erosion of confidence in C&I the presented paper evaluated the diversity of five C&I sets (CIFOR, ACM, FSC, ITTO and Tarapoto) relevant for the Brazilian Amazon by analyzing frequencies of C&I in relation to parameters about content and quality.

Date: Juin 2017

Source: Foncier & Développement

Par: Etienne Le Roy

L’archipel des Comores qui accède à l’indépendance en 1975 dans des conditions difficiles a ensuite trouvé des réponses contribuant à la paix civile en généralisant des expériences locales de gestion patrimoniale qui ont pu faire l’économie de réformes politiquement et socialement incertaines.

This Issue Paper No.2 is part of the series Making Rangelands Secure, a learning initiative supported by ILC, IFAD, RECONCILE, IUCN-WISP and Procasur. The Making Rangelands Secure Initiative has been established by a group of organisations seeking to improve security of rights to rangelands. The initiative seeks to identify, communicate and build good practice on making rangelands secure for local rangeland users.

These guidelines introduce and promote the essential elements of participatory rangeland management (PRM). Based upon the successful experiences of participatory forest management, the guidelines provide a process following three stages of investigation, negotiation and implementation. The sequential steps of this process lead to the development of a rangeland management plan and a legally binding rangeland management agreement between a local rangeland management institution and the appropriate local government office.

Date: septembre 2017

Source: Foncier & Développement

Par: Achille GNOKO, Alain ZOUZOU, Désiré YOUAN-BI, Emmanuel COULIBALY, Stéphane LOROUX

Date: 3 avril 2018

Source: Books.openedition.org

Par: Armelle Choplin et Mohamed Fall Ould Bah (dir.)

Le présent ouvrage réunit des articles inédits, majoritairement écrits par des Mauritaniens, et propose une réflexion sur des thèmes cruciaux pour la société mauritanienne contemporaine, à savoir la question foncière et l’accès au sol.