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  • Knowledge | Forest Connect: Supporting Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (toolkit)

    04.30.12

    Small 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.

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

    02.27.12

    The idea of paying tropical countries to reduce their emissions from deforestation and forest degradation to combat global climate change, known as REDD+, will only take off and maintain its momentum if forest-dependent communities subscribe to the initiative's motivation and objectives. This is where a well-designed benefit sharing mechanism will make a difference. A country's benefit sharing mechanism will determine who is involved in REDD+ and the ways in which benefits are shared. PROFOR's newly published four-part volume provides insights for REDD+ initiatives gathered from experts and nine benefit sharing case studies.

  • Knowledge | Social Impact Assessment of Forest Carbon Projects (toolkit)

    02.14.12

    Are land-based carbon projects good for local people, biodiversity, and ecosystem services? This PROFOR-supported activity produced a user-friendly Manual on how to conduct cost-effective and credible social and biodiversity impact assessments. Background case studies and toolkits are available on this page.

  • 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
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