indigenous peoples
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Knowledge | National Timber Yield Tables for Mahogany
01.17.12Accurate conversion factors for standing timber and export grade sawn wood are crucial for the effective implementation of the CITES convention. With technical assistance from Intercooperation and PROFOR's FLEG team, Guatemala has developed national yield tables and volumetric conversion factors for mahogany.
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Field Notes | Voices from the Baka
11.23.11Colleagues from the World Bank Africa region worked with IUCN to document what is happening to a corner of the vast tropical forest in Cameroon, seen from the perspective of the Baka people. The 9-mn movie is embedded here.
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Field Notes | News from the Amazon
03.29.11A new report looks at how the Paiter-Surui indigenous people came to give their Free, Prior and Informed Consent to a carbon project. New satellite images document the withering effect of the 2010 drought on Amazon forests.
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Knowledge | Supporting Forest Stakeholders' Participation in Forest Consultative Councils
07.01.10The aim of this activity was to support grassroots organizations targeting forest stakeholders at communal, municipal and departmental (sub national) levels in Honduras to establish Forest Consultative Councils as mandated by the new forestry law.
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Knowledge | Forest Resource Access and Local Livelihoods
12.30.08In partnership with CIFOR, PROFOR examined key variables affecting access to forest resources and their benefits. To improve understanding of these relationships in diverse settings, case studies were carried out in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to include conservation settlement communities, indigenous territories and agro-extractive communities.
