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Knowledge | Forests and Rural Livelihood in the Kyrgyz Republic - Development Potentials
01.25.12The 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.
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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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Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest Dependent Communities
10.05.11Building 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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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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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.
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Knowledge | Strengthening Forest Governance in Peru - Phase II
09.30.10Building on a previous FLEG program implemented by IUCN/TRAFFIC/VERIFOR ( the Forest Governance and Transparency in the Amazon Region project in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru), PROFOR supported efforts to promote national forest stakeholder networks and boost their participation in policy dialogue and good governance in Peru.
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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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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.
