community forestry
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Knowledge | Community Forestry Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets in Mexico
06.27.11This activity aims to develop consensus, through a stakeholder-driven process, on a course of action required to position Mexico’s community forestry sector as a high-value provider to niche markets from sustainably managed community forests, delivering both income and biodiversity protection. It has produced a guide in Spanish top evaluating economic and financial returns in community forest projects.
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News & Events | International Year of Forests -- An Ongoing Forest Lesson
06.22.11The United Nations made "Forests for People" the theme of the 2011 International Year of Forests, to celebrate the central role people play in conserving and managing forest resources. This initiative has also prompted the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to put together a calendar of thematic press releases exploring all sorts of forest facets.
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Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Danone
06.06.11Speaking at the Nairobi investment forum on trees and landscape restoration last month, Danone's VP for Sustainability shared his company's experience with agroforestry and ecosystem restoration, in Senegal and elsewhere. The company's work, in partnership with IUCN, helped develop a recently-adopted carbon accounting methodology for mangroves.
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Field Notes | Money on Trees
06.01.11The Nairobi investment forum which wrapped up last week provided a one-of-a-kind inventory of private sector opportunities related to growing trees, marketing tree products and restoring degraded landscapes in partnership with civil society and government. The next step is to draw up an action plan to make sure that the contacts and good ideas generated by the forum translate into new investments.
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Knowledge | Forest Connect: Supporting Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (toolkit)
05.11.11Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) are the norm in most developing countries. They often represent 80-90% of all forest enterprises and more than 50% of formal forest jobs -- plus many more of an informal and seasonal nature. They accrue wealth locally, empower local entrepreneurship, strengthen social networks and engender local social and environmental accountability. But in least developed countries, structures that connect with and support SMFEs and their associations are weak.
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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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Knowledge | Community Forestry and REDD+
03.08.11PROFOR is supporting a study that will contribute to the debate about the potential and constraints of community forestry approaches to strike a balance between forest management, livelihood enhancement and carbon sequestration in the context of emerging REDD+ architectures.
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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.
