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… (FFF). It describes the actions of the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN). It was established in June 1995 with the … FECOFUN. It has grown into a social movement organisation organising about 14 million people from 22,415 community forestry user groups (CFUGs) with 2.9 million households federated into …

… local trees”. Since then, he has built Mr Forest into a successful forestry company. Mr Zheng is one of many Chinese investors in Africa, … operating practices, adopted Chinese government guidelines on good forestry, and actively supports local communities in Mozambique. Not all … Chinese investment in Africa's forests. The issue is significant: about 90% of Mozambique’s timber that is exported heads to China – and …

… red hair and matching beard was blissfully unaware that his life was about to change forever. David Satterthwaite, 23, had spent two months working at a forestry camp on Vancouver Island, Canada, with friends who had a …

… communities control them – offer great potential for sustainable forestry. What has long been missing is investment, but what’s now … to encourage new flows of finance. Investing in locally controlled forestry is a fairly new way to do business, one that brings social and … depend. This makes it very relevant in Mexico, where forests cover about 31.5 per cent of the land and where communities own half of all …

… Subsistence farmers have traditionally happily married forestry and agricultural practices on their land, and have done so for … dioxide. In fact, according to these FAO statistics , forests supply about 90% of the total fuel wood used and more than 50% of the fodder … is the mainstay of the country’s economy with agriculture and forestry together contributing 32 per cent of the country’s total gross …