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The Deramakot Forest Reserve, in Sabah, Malaysia, includes a strict protection area for biodiversity conservation and a reduced-impact logging area (Photo: Angela Sevin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
… – wrote a tribute to his peer and colleague for the Commonwealth Forestry Association (CFA). It was published as an obituary in International Forestry Review 18(3), 369-371, 2016 , and is reproduced below with kind … Professor of Forest Science and Director of the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, where a generation of students (including me) …
Article, 19 October 2016
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Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal
… Although forest covers 40 per cent of Nepal, the forestry sector’s potential to generate huge employment opportunities is … technology and poor market integration all limit the growth of viable forestry enterprises. The Forest and Farm Facility’s cross-sectoral … Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal …
Publication, 01 April 2016
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Investing in locally controlled forestry in Mozambique
… potential of different options for investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF), with a strong focus on local enterprise development. It … Investing in locally controlled forestry in Mozambique …
Publication, 01 December 2013
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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
… 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 … as land use, production and natural resource management. For Mexico’s forestry to reach its potential, these systems of local control will …
Insight, 01 October 2013
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Recommendations for a market-led approach to community forestry in Myanmar
… to develop recommendations for a market-led approach to community forestry in Myanmar. This report summarizes the main findings from that … (i) background review of relevant literature pertaining to community forestry in Myanmar (and participation in a seminar on the same at the … (ii) a series of meetings with 30 leading actors related to community forestry between 3-16 December in Yangon; (iii) inputs to the …
Publication, 01 April 2013
Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.
Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
… Subsistence farmers have traditionally happily married forestry and agricultural practices on their land, and have done so for … is the mainstay of the country’s economy with agriculture and forestry together contributing 32 per cent of the country’s total gross … separate strategies, one for the agricultural sector and one for the forestry sector. The administrative arrangements and policies tell a …
Insight, 18 July 2013
Local farm foresters near Kumasi, Ghana. Evidence suggests that locally controlled forests are generally better for the forest and people than either protected areas or large-scale industrial business models (Photo: WWF)
Investing in locally controlled forestry – a planetary-scale solution for forests and people
… As a researcher in tropical forestry I travel to tropical forest areas in Africa, Asia and Latin … governments are to unleash the economic potential of local controlled forestry. Four basic preconditions are needed: secure forest tenure, … resolution, insurance and credit. By 2012, more than 90 million forestry farms had been granted certificates for forest management. Some …
Insight, 07 September 2016
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A Review of TFD’s Initiative on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry
… Under the right conditions, locally controlled forestry (LCF) can be a strong contributor to local livelihoods, forest … (TFD) between 2009 and 2012 on ‘investing in locally controlled forestry’ (ILCF) was designed to help catalyse investments in LCF by … three major rights-holder alliances representing Indigenous Peoples’ forestry, community forestry and family forestry in developing and …
Publication, 01 September 2012
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Guide to investing in locally controlled forestry
… This Guide to Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) emerged out of 11 international dialogues that assembled … Guide to investing in locally controlled forestry …
Publication, 01 December 2012
Community Forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… research into experiences in other parts of the world with community forestry, in particular, the legal and institutional frameworks that … a national dialogue on forest governance relating to community forestry. The institute also supported partner organisations in DRC … resources, development aspirations and the potential of community forestry. The research was designed to support the development of a …
Project, 09 September 2010