This paper addresses the increasing concern over the contribution of charcoal production and commercial timber extraction to deforestation and forest degradation in Zambia. This scoping study notes that rural communities in Zambia are fully involved in forest management and do obtain direct incentives from these forests, a critical condition for realising sustainable forest management. With tra…
Social attributes such as gender, wealth, age, ethnicity, migration status and religion can confer systematic disadvantages by making it difficult for some groups and individuals to access public and private mechanisms of resource allocation or decision making. In this strategy, we set out possibilities for strengthening how we address gender concerns in the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, T…
The issue of REDD+ benefit sharing has captured the attention of policymakers and local communities because the success of REDD+ will depend greatly on the design and implementation of its benefit-sharing mechanism. Despite a large body of literature on potential benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+, the field has lacked global comparative analyses of national REDD+ policies and of the politica…
Local people in South-east Asia are often cited as skilled forest managers. It is barely acknowledged that an essential part of this forest management does not concern natural forests, but forests that have been planted, often after the removal of pre-existing natural forests: forests that are cultivated not by professional foresters, but by sedentary or swidden farmers, on their farmlands: for…
Laporan ini merupakan bagian dari rangkaian laporan studi kasus tentang dampak desentralisasi di sektor kehutanan di Indonesia. Selama lebih dari dua tahun (dari 2002 sampai 2004), tim h peneliti dari berbagai universitas, LSM dan CIFOR melaksanakan suatu penelitian aksi kebijakan dengan tema 'Can Decentralization Work for Forests and the Poor?' atau "Dapatkah Desentralisasi Bermanfaat bagi Kel…
Laporan ini merupakan bagian dari rangkaian laporanstudikasustentangdampak desentralisasi di sektor kehutanan di Indonesia. Selama lebih dari dua tahun (dari 2002 sampai 2004), tim h peneliti dari berbagai universitas, LSM dan CIFOR melaksanakan suatu penelitian aksi kebijakan dengan tema 'Can Decentralization Work for Forests and the Poor?' atau "Dapatkah Desentralisasi Bermanfaat bagi Kelesta…
Indigenous peoples' efforts to protect and conserve their forests and to sustainably manage these prove that they are the ones who have contributed significantly in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, even before REDD came into the picture. If their customary institutions and practices for managing forests and other resources are reinforced, their contributions will be…
Buku ini merupakan salah satu keluaran dari program regional RECOFTC "Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD+ in the Asia-Pacific Region." Program ini mula dilaksanakan sejak tahun 2009 di Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, dan Vietnam. Pada Januar 2013, Myanmar masuk sebagai negara kelima. Sebagaimana diketahui, REDD- adalah mekanisme yang dimunculkan di tingkat internasional dan para pemangku kepentingan…