land tenure
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Field Notes | What Indonesia Stands to Gain
04.26.11Cost-benefit analysis of REDD+ measures may be misleading for many reasons. With this in mind, consultant Dominic Elson tried to refute opportunity cost assumptions and map out the consequences of 'Going Green' vs. 'Business as Usual' in the case of Indonesia. He found found that Indonesia has much to gain by changing its approach to land use and reducing emissions.
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Knowledge | Impacts of China’s Forest Tenure Reform: Implications for Policy Makers
04.13.11A careful evaluation of the decade-old reforms could hold valuable lessons for China’s efforts to fine-tune its legal and regulatory environment to maximize potential gains from these reforms, and to guide other countries that want to improve the way in which state forests are managed.
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Field Notes | Good news for forests?
02.10.11We asked Klaus Deininger, lead author of Rising Global Interest in Farmland, to tell us -- in a nutshell -- what recent land acquisition trends mean for forests.
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Knowledge | Large-scale Acquisition of Land Rights for Agricultural or Natural Resource-based Use
02.10.11Large-scale land acquisition attracted considerable interest in the wake of the 2007-08 commodity boom. This global 'land rush' is unlikely to slow given volatile global commodity prices, demand for biofuels, rising incomes, urbanization and population increases. What impact has this rising interest in farmland had so far?
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Knowledge | Linking Land Tenure Regularization and Forest Management in Honduras
01.07.07To support the Government of Honduras' efforts to regularize forest land tenure in the country, PROFOR financed analysis of different arrangements of forest ownership and forest access / control rights and their implications for responsible use and equity. The resulting papers are available in Spanish.
