Saikou Janko, president of All Gambia Forestry Platform has blamed the government for illegal logging and wood timber trade. Mr Janko said: “The Gambia forest cover is declining at an alarming rate causing serious threat to the livelihood of rural Gambians exposing them to climate change hazards.” “The task force is hereby...

Liberia has re-joined the FFF as a network country. A Letter of Agreement was signed on 16 April with the Farmer Union Network of Liberia (FUN) and the National Charcoal Union (NACUL). The two organizations will support farmers and forest producers as primary change agents to build climate-resilient landscapes and...

David Kaimowitz describes his career as a “a 30-year quest to understand what causes deforestation,” one that has brought him full circle to where he started: at the issue of land rights.  In this interview with Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler, Kaimowitz talks about why it took so long for Indigenous...

In this interview published by IUCN, David Kaimowitz of the Forest and Farm Facility shares his thoughts on the role of the global organisation he now manages, discusses a new report on Forest Governance by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and touches on connections to primary forests.

How strong is the evidence, and how confident can policymakers be that bolstering communal land rights is a climate solution? A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean...