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Broadening forestry education to tackle the climate crisis
17/02/2022
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To halt deforestation, we must empower smaller businesses in the legal timber trade
07/01/2022
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Producer groups key to empowering rural women in Nepal
24/12/2021
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Assessing the governance of tenure for improving forests and livelihoods
2019
A tool to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure to help countries evaluate their forest tenure systems, particularly those that facilitate participation of non-state actors in forestry, including co-management regimes, community forestry, smallholder forestry, large holder forestry, or company concessions granted on State lands.
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A framework to assess the extent and effectiveness of community-based forestry
2019
Well-performing community-based forestry (CBF) has the potential to rapidly restore forests in ecological terms and scale up sustainable forest management to the national level, while improving local livelihoods of billions of the most marginalized people around the world.
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Agroforestry and tenure
2019
This paper reviews the main tenure-related challenges that can affect agroforestry adoption. Drawing on practical cases, the document presents measures and approaches which could potentially fuel the adoption of agroforestry, concluding with specific recommendations for formulation and implementation of tenure policies promoting agroforestry.