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…
Pemerintah Indonesia, dengan dukungan dari masyarakat internasional, sedang menjalankan serangkaian program pembaharuan untuk meningkatkan penegakan keadilan melalui institusi-institusi negara - Mahkamah Agung, Kejaksaan Agung, dan Kepolisian. Pembaharuan penting kelembagaan telah dijalankan dalam beberapa tahun terakhir melalui prestasi Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), pembentukan Mahkamah…
Proceeding penyelenggaraan dan hasil-hasil ASFN Conference ini merupakan gambaran dari berbagai upaya penyelenggaraan social forestry di lingkup regional serta peran dan kontribusinya dalam upaya peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat dan perbaikan lingkungan, peranannya dalam mendukung ketahanan pangan sebagai bagian dari upaya mitigasi dan adaptasi perubahan iklim, serta prospek implementasi so…
Land Watch Asia (LWA) is a regional campaign to ensure that access to land, agrarian reform and sustainable development for the rural poor are addressed in national and regional development agenda. The campaign involves civil society organizations in six countries-Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines. It aims to take stock of significant changes in land policy: unde…
Buku ini berisikan tentang undang-undang perlindungan dan pengelolaan lingkungan hidup.
Growing global demand for palm oil is fuelling the large-scale expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia and Africa. Concerns about the environmental and social impacts of the conversion of vast tracts of land to monocrop plantations led in 2004 to the establishment of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which encourages oil palm expansion in ways that do not destroy hi…