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What maintains poverty? A study of factors affecting poverty in mountainous areas of Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
… poor in most assistance programmes. • The role of the Agriculture and Forestry Extension is weak. • The SFEs, a big land stakeholder in the …
Publication, 01 January 2004
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Mount Kenya: The economics of community conservation
… a protected area in 1932. Supported by wider moves to reform national forestry policy and practice, there have been several shifts in forest …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Rwanda has made significant commitments on restoration. Kigali, surrounded by green hills, was a particularly fitting venue for the African Forest Landscape Investment Forum (Photo: atulinda Images, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
… wood-fuel producers, and bamboo and honey farmers.  In Kenya the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya now represents more …
Insight, 08 June 2017
Photo: Farah Sevilla, Alyansa Tigil Mina
How extractive industries can address conflict and build trust with communities
… gaps left by weak legal systems. "Leading oil and gas, mining and forestry companies are starting to establish their own formal mechanisms …
News, 25 April 2013
Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
… The ape experts had gathered at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia for a three day workshop …
Insight, 13 January 2012
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 7 Anantapur experiment in 'PRA' training
… as Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Irrigation, Horticulture, Social Forestry, Fishery, Groundwater Department etc. Some of these teams have …
Publication, 01 January 1988
An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… peoples. As part of this process, AMAN challenged Article 1(6) of the Forestry Law No. 41 of 1999 which, the Constitutional Court held, …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Exploring fair trade timber
… much to help community enterprises – but mainly in agriculture, not forestry. It is now time to examine the demand and potential of a …
Project, 11 June 2008
Forest protest ends in teargas and death - but a green governance movement starts to emerge in Uganda
… reserves in Bugala and a palm oil company called Bidco, caused many forestry professionals at the National Forest Authority to resign in … movement, a new political dynamic. They see these forestry issues getting to the heart of the governance problem in Uganda …
Insight, 13 April 2007
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… that are driving their loss, including agriculture, mining and forestry, if the diversity of life is to survive. This article is …
Insight, 18 February 2020