ICT
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Knowledge | Information Management and Forest Governance
07.12.11Forest Governance 2.0: A Primer on ICTs and Governance explores a range of information and communication technology uses, including increasing public participation and bolstering law enforcement and economic efficiency, to improve forest governance. It draws on current and planned initiatives, both from within the sector as well as outside, from secondary sources and country reports from Ghana, Finland and Uganda.
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Field Notes | "A Search for Fair Returns"
01.31.11Reuters' special report "In global land rush, a search for fair returns" (Jan 31, 2011) raises questions of governance, benefit-sharing, innovation and foreign investment that PROFOR has been asking as well in recent and ongoing studies.
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Field Notes | Hand-held Device Tracks Logs
05.21.10Information and communication technology (ICT) has been transforming the way agriculture is practiced even in remote parts of the developing world for many years now. Cell phones are helping small producers -- from poor farmers in India to fishermen in Sierra Leone -- access market information, bargain for their goods and raise their income. In the forestry sector, business technology is also moving towards handheld mobile devices that can help isolated groups monitor forests, tree-by-tree, for the benefit of many stake-holders along the chain of custody.
