Land lies at the very foundation of our society and social life; it plays a central role in the livelihoods and cultural identities of communities across the globe, and contains the resources that underpin our now globalised world. However, partly because of this, it is often at the heart of social and political conflicts. Increasing demand for food, energy and other primary products is driving agribusinesses, mining companies and speculative investors in a quest for new land to acquire and exploit.

Forests managed by Indigenous and other local communities generate important benefits for livelihood, and contribute to regional and global biodiversity and carbon sequestration goals. Yet, challenges to community forestry remain. Rural out-migration, for one, can make it hard for communities to maintain broad and diverse memberships invested in local forest commons. This includes young people, who can contribute critical energy, ideas, and skills and are well positioned to take up community forest governance and work, but often aspire to alternative livelihoods and lifestyles.

This guide is for forestry practitioners from local communities, governments, the private sector, civil society and academia in Southeast Asia. It explains the fundamentals of forest landscape restoration (FLR) and serves as a starting point for future exploration and design of FLR initiatives. 

India is currently among the most affected countries by COVID19, recording over 6 million cases, by September 30 2020. The pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalisedcommunities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress.

Three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, with Ebola, SARS, MERS and now COVID-19 being examples. Scientists are warning that deforestation, industrial agriculture, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and other types of environmental degradation increase the risk of future pandemics.

Knowledge transfer depends on the motivations of the target users. A case study of the intention of Indonesian coffee farmers to use a tree canopy trimming technique in pine–based agroforestry highlights path-dependency and complexity of social-ecological relationships. Farmers have contracts permitting coffee cultivation under pine trees owned by the state forestry company but have no right to fell trees.

จดหมายข่าว "CF-Net News" หรือ ซีเอฟ เน็ท นิวส์ คือจดหมายข่าว เพื่อการเชื่อมโยง ประสานความเข้าใจและแบ่งปันข้อมูลกันภายในเครือข่ายป่าไม้ภาคพลเมือง จึงเป็นพื้นที่ของการสื่อสาร เพื่อบอกเล่าความคืบหน้า ข่าวสาร และบทความวิเคราะห์ที่เป็นประโยชน์กับเครือข่ายฯ โดยจะนำเสนอเป็นประจำ โดยเผยแพร่ทั้งทางโซเชียลมีเดีย (ไลน์ และเฟซบุ๊ค) และเว็บไซด์

Land-use planning is an important policy instrument for governing landscapes to achieve multifunctionality in rural areas. This paper presents a case study conducted in Na Nhan commune in the northwest montane region of Vietnam to assess land-use strategies toward multiple ecosystem services, through integrated land-use planning.

Natural disasters and pandemics are evolving as major global threats that are posing an enormous challenge to socio- economic and environmental wellbeing. Using a real time analysis of the impressive role played by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) in Nepal in responding to the 2015 earthquakes (Earthquake-15) and COVID-19, this paper explores the scopes, capacities, institutional strengths and attributes required for community-based institutions such as CFUGs to become effective in managing and responding natural or other disasters.

Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices—incorporating trees into grazing lands—to mitigate climate change. However, the cumulative potential of scaling up silvopastoral systems at national levels is not well quantified. Here, we combined previously published tree cover data based on 250 m resolution MODIS satellite remote sensing imagery for 2000–2017 with ecofloristic zone carbon stock estimates to calculate historical and potential future tree biomass carbon storage in Colombian grasslands.

In Thailand, COVID-19 has made life harder for communities, many of which are already facing droughts, stagnant wage growth and rising poverty. Poverty rates had already risen in 2016 and 2018 in Thailand, according to the World Bank.  Now, with large parts of the economy shuttered or slowed because of the crisis, poor families are struggling as incomes vanish.

ปี 2562 ที่ผ่านมา ได้มีความเคลื่อนไหวมากมายเกี่ยวกับนโยบายกฎหมายการจัดการที่ดินและป่าไม้ไทย ซึ่งส่งผลกระทบอย่างมีนัยสำคัญต่อผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียจำนวนมาก โดยเฉพาะผู้คนและชุมชนที่อยู่อาศัย ทำกินในพื้นที่ป่า ศูนย์วนศาสตร์ชุมชนเพื่อคนกับป่า (รีคอฟ)  ประเทศไทย โครงการ Voice of Mekong Forest  เครือข่ายป่าไม้ภาคพลเมืองและภาคี ได้ร่วมกันจัดทำหนังสือ “ล้อมวงคุย นโยบายและกฏหมายป่าไม้-ที่ดินไทย 2562 สู่การเตรียมความพร้อมชุมชน” ขึ้น โดยรวบรวมความเคลื่อนไหวสำคัญด้านนโยบายและกฎหมายที่เก