Forest governance assessment is an expanding practice. People are using Assessments to watch for developing problems, diagnose needs for reform, Monitor progress of programs, and evaluate impacts. Governments, civil society Organizations, development partners, academics and coalitions of stakeholders Have all performed assessments in recent years. In 2012, an expert meeting at fao headquarters in rome recommended the creation of a guide to good practices in forest governance assessment and data collection.

Ecuador se encuentra en un proceso de preparación para acceder a los mercados internacionales de carbono a través de los mecanismos de Reducción de Emisiones causadas por Deforestación y Degradación de los bosques (REDD+). Este es un mecanismo clave para mitigar el cambio climático y se centra en cinco actividades forestales que actúan como medidas de mitigación medibles, reportables y verificables.

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y Agricultura (FAO), conjuntamente con el Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador (MAE) han direccionado su trabajo al desarrollo de estrategias en diferentes ámbitos para apoyar a la reducción de los efectos del cambio climático.

"Лесные генетические ресурсы (ЛГР) – это передающиеся по наследству материалы, содержащиеся внутри одного и различных видов деревьев и других древесных растений, представляющих фактическую или потенциальную экономическую, экологическую, научную и социальную ценность. Они играют важную роль в адаптации и защите наших экосистем, ландшафтов и производственных систем, но подвергаются усиливающемуся давлению со стороны различных факторов, а также нерациональному использованию.

Social Justice in Forestry – as a project of FGLG with funding from the EC – supported the Mozambique Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG-Mozambique) from January 2009 to December 2013, building on a first phase of EC support from April 2005 to December 2008 and an even earlier phase of work funded by DFID that started in 2003-2004.

Bolivia cuenta con una importante superficie de bosques, mayormente en su región sub-tropical y tropical. La deforestación alcanza aproximadamente 200.000 hectáreas por año, sobre todo en las tierras bajas, mientras que la degradación de bosques es más acentuada en los bosques andinos. La ganadería es actualmente la principal causa directa de deforestación, seguida por la agricultura mecanizada de mediana y gran escala, mayormente para la producción de soya, y luego la agricultura a pequeña escala.

Social equity is the fairness of treatment of all concerned stakeholders according to an agreed set of principles, particularly in procedures used to form and implement policies and in the distribution of resources and costs. In order to understand the practical implementation of various dimensions of equity in forest management, two case studies were carried out in two community forests (CF) of Nepal, namely Chisapani CF of Nawalparasi district and Bandre CF in Syangja district.

In Asia, while women play central roles in the use, management and conservation of forest resources and agricultural lands, they are often excluded from land management decision-making. Customary practices and widespread perceptions that the forest and land-related sectors are more “suitable for men” result in women’s lack of opportunities to take part in landscape decision-making, lack of access to financial services, and lack of ownership of land.

The scale of attacks against land rights defenders is particularly preoccupying and should attract our utmost reaction and urgent mobilisation.
The toll they pay, together with their families and communities, is dramatic,
be it killings, forced disappearances, harassment or criminalisation. Caught
in the crossfire between poor land users fighting for the respect of their basic
human rights and powerful economic actors fighting for juicy profits, they
account as one of the most vulnerable categories of human rights defenders.

... Large-scale agricultural investments – in plantations, processing plants or contract farming schemes, for example – have increased in recent years, particularly in developing countries. Investment in the agriculture sector can bring much needed support for rural development, but communities have also witnessed significant negative impacts. Some of the most serious involve local landholders being displaced from their lands and losing access to

The Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources having conducted oversight at the Council of Geosciences (CGS), the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP), from 21 – 22 October 2014 reports as follows:

1. Background and Introduction