Category: community forest management
Governing the Forests: An Institutional Analysis of REDD+ and Community Forest Management in Asia
REDD+ has become an important component in the discussions on climate change and forest governance, but there is further need to understand the linkages with local governance and the challenges for its implementation. This joint report aims to serve as a useful reference for policy makers, professionals and practitioners as they work to promote REDD+ in ways that tackle climate change and biodiversity loss but also respect concerns and listen to the voice of local...
Forests for livelihoods. Proceedings for APFNet workshop on community forestry in the context of climate change
Community forestry is any activity that provides forest goods and services to rural populations. In 1978, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defined the term as any situation which intimately involves local people but excludes large scale industrial and other forms of forestry that contribute to development solely through employment and wages. However, community forestry does include the activities of enterprises and governments that encourage...
Traditional forest knowledge of the Yi people confronting policy reform and social changes in Yunnan province of China
The Yi minority group has a long history, and their livelihoods and culture exist in complex, holistic interrelationship with forests. This paper aims to document the dynamic, traditional forest knowledge (TFK) of the Yi, including: forest categorization methods; routine forest utilization; land tenure and use-right arrangements; benefit-sharing mechanisms; customary regulations; and forest-related beliefs. Our analysis is based on rapid investigations conducted in two dozen Yi ‘natural...
REDD+ and Community Forestry: lessons learned from an exchange of Brazilian experiences with Africa
This publication is the result of an initative THIS pubLICATIon IS THe reSuLT of An InITIATIVe by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, with funding from the Global Environment Facility, to promote an exchange between Brazil and Africa on lessons learned about the role of community forestry as a strategy to achieve the goals of REDD+1. The results presented here are based on a factfinding mission to Brazil by policy makers and experts from six African countries, in...
Gender, tenure and community forests in Uganda
Over the past century, the management of forest resources in Uganda has vacillated from a centralised to a decentralised approach. With the Forest Act in 1993, the country began a new round of governance reforms that devolved ownership and management of central forest reserves to local governments. Four years later, the Local Government Act transferred management functions over forest reserves to the districts and sub-counties. By 2000, however, the deforestation rate – already the highest in...
A Toolkit to Assess Proposed Benefit Sharing and Revenue Distribution Schemes of Community REDD+ Projects
This Toolkit to assess proposed Benefit Sharing and Revenue Distribution Schemes of Community REDD+ Projects has been developed as part of REDD-net’s aim of strengthening the ability of community-based institutions to address REDD+ issues, with benefit sharing being a key issue in the design of equitable REDD+ policies and projects at the national and community levels. This Toolkit to assess proposed benefit sharing and revenue distribution schemes under community REDD+ projects will assist...
Two decades of Community Forestry in Nepal What have we Learned?
Development projects conceived now are rarely expected to have a life of more than five years, perhaps ten years at most. Looking back over more than twenty years of project experience in community forestry - itself grounded on an integrated development project of a similar time span - is thus a rare opportunity. Of course trees and forests require a longer establishment period than many other development interventions, and that is part of the rationale for a long time frame – but not the only...
El manejo forestal sostenible Como estrategia de combate al Cambio climático: las comunidades Nos muestran el camino
This document presents the results of recent studies of community forest management in Mexico in the belief that it can inspire other countries and peoples to follow similar paths. Devolving rights over forest land and its resources, including carbon, to the local level is not a panacea for deforestation and forest degradation nor the only necessary ingredient for forest-based carbon capture.
Sustainable Forest Management as a Strategy to Combat Climate Chang: Lessons from Mexican Communities
This document presents the results of recent studies of community forest management in Mexico in the belief that it can inspire other countries and peoples to follow similar paths. Devolving rights over forest land and its resources, including carbon, to the local level is not a panacea for deforestation and forest degradation nor the only necessary ingredient for forest-based carbon capture.
