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  • Field Notes | Free lunch, in the shade of a marula tree

    01.30.12

    The marula tree dominates the rolling communal pastures and family courtyards in Bushbuckridge,  South Africa. In a landscape where most of the bush has long been cleared for timber, firewood or farmland, the survival of the marula tree is a function of its special status and multiple uses.

  • Knowledge | Forests and Rural Livelihood in the Kyrgyz Republic - Development Potentials

    01.25.12

    The reports' findings should help inform implementation of government and donor interventions to improve forest management, with a focus on the relationships between State Forest Enterprises inherited from the Soviet era (lezkozes) and local villagers in harvesting timber and NTFPs. In particular, the formulation of specific recommendations for overcoming policy and value chain problems should help increase the benefits that communities derive from forests and their products.

  • Knowledge | Desert Cloud Forests in Yemen and Oman

    01.25.12

    Desert Cloud Forests in Yemen and Oman are unique and fragile ecosystems, subject to human threats and climate change repercussions.

  • Knowledge | Implications of the Changes in Agro-food and Fuel Prices on Rural Livelihoods and Forests in Syria

    01.23.12

    In order to guide the World Bank and development partners' support to Syria’s natural resource management, PROFOR supported an activity that examined the implications of recent changes in international and local agro-food and fuel prices and the impact of climate change on farmers’ welfare. This activity was closed due to the political crisis in Syria.

  • Knowledge | Impact of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Protected Areas

    01.10.12

    With PROFOR support, the World Bank's Africa regional staff contracted WWF and Estelle Levin Ltd to conduct studies in Liberia and Gabon to analyze the impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities on high-value natural landscapes and the people who live nearby, and propose more sustainable approaches to current ASM practices.

  • Field Notes | Notes from a muthi market

    12.02.11

    A few minutes’ drive from the COP 17 convention center, traders and healers are hard at work processing and selling bark, roots, tubers and animal parts endowed with medicinal and magic powers. The 50 or so stalls at the thriving outdoor market in Durban’s Victoria Street Market area, are a graphic reminder of the millions of people who depend on informal activities and “free” resources from dry forests and woodlands.

  • Page | Miombo Annexes

    11.23.11

  • Knowledge | Policies and Incentives for Managing the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa

    11.16.11

    The Miombo Woodlands are the most extensive tropical seaonal woodland and dry forest formation in Africa. Although they are less rich in biodiversity and high-value timber than moist tropical forests, these landscapes play an integral role in the lives of millions of rural people who depend on woodland resources for food, energy and environmental services. The ongoing public debate about the value of forests and woodlands in the face of climate change provides an important opportunity to revisit policies, incentives and options for managing the miombo woodlands in ways which benefit the rural poor.

  • Knowledge | Lessons Learned from an Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Technology Transfer from Costa Rica to Cameroon

    10.18.11

    A World Bank-supported pilot project, launched in January 2011, has demonstrated that several agrosilvopastoral technology innovations and systems developed and/or tested in Central America can be adapted to the Tugi (Gutah) Hills in the North West Region of Cameroon, resulting in the rehabilitation of degraded pasture lands, improved livestock productivity, increased income of the rural communities and reduced risk and vulnerability to climate change. A new PROFOR activty aims to document and disseminate the lessons from that project.

  • Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest Dependent Communities

    10.05.11

    Building on a report titled Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing: Insights on What Makes Collaborative Arrangements Work for Communities and Landowners and field work in Latin America and Africa, PROFOR is supporting a study drilling down on two questions of particular interest in the context of REDD initiatives: how to identify legitimate beneficiaries, and how to identify appropriate mechanisms for sharing benefits.
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