Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG)

A series of short films that ask – who gets to decide about forests? With deforestation causing such havoc for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, it is an important question.

Trees in local hands details how the FGLG team in Ghana are working on practical ways of securing local decision-making to address the issue of chainsaw lumbering.

Forests fight back tells the epic tale of the fierce and ultimately successful battle to save the Mabira forest reserve in Uganda from being sold off to private agribusiness.

Local people need legal rights to forests shows how benefits have started to accrue to communities in Vietnam when they were given commercial rights to use forests – and how this provides an incentive for sustainable forest management.

Burning issues: The problem of charcoal details how the FGLG team in Malawi put the charcoal issue on the map as the country’s’ third largest industry and brought government together with charcoal producers in search of more sustainable

In December 2010, forestry experts from Africa and Asia met in Namaacha, Mozambique as part of the Forest Governance Learning Group learning event, to share experiences and ideas about tackling forest governance issues nationally and internationally.