This project focused on development of a team-based learning (TBL) case study with supporting multimedia material, to enhance teaching and learning experience on the effects of forestry management treatments on soil properties in a Pinus radiata plantation in the Southern Cape forest region of South Africa. Data for this case...

This review examines a subset of existing and emerging issues associated with the management and conservation of the world's forests and forest biodiversity. Four topics are covered: (1) key processes threatening forest biodiversity. (2) broad strategies for mitigating threatening processes. (3) climate change and the conservation of forest biodiversity. and...

FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) programme was established to support countries to plan and carry out activities to restore degraded forest, crop, range and other productive lands, in order to improve the resilience, productivity and socio-economic value from restored landscapes. Three case studies are presented: Lebanon, where the...

Forest and wildlife resources are indispensable for the provision of ecosystem goods and services; as well as spiritual and cultural values in rural areas. In most unprotected areas, these resources are increasingly under threat prompting indigenous communities to apply their local knowledge in an effort to conserve them. This study...

Projects implemented as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol will have the dual mandate of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to sustainable development. Basic agreement on core elements was reached in 2001, including the decision to allow afforestation and reforestation projects. However, it is...

The voluntary certification of forests as a guarantee to the buyer of timber or a forest product that the forest is well managed, those operating in it comply with legislation and the use of the forest is economically, ecologically and socially sustainable. Most of Finlands forests are certified under the...

This videa is a documentary about the work of the Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB) to introduce Forest Certification for Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in Nepal's community forestry. Produced for ANSAB by the Nepal Forum for Environmental Journalists in association with the United States Agency for...

This review looks at the experience with communities and certification as the first in a series of systematic reviews of certification. The analysis titled “A Decade of Certification: Reflecting on the Way Forward” includes an assessment of community experiences with certification to date, an evaluation of the range of direct...

This paper draws on a case study of the Brazilian Amazon to assess how two widely promoted strategies to govern tropical forests – non-state certification and state-based legality initiatives – interact with tropical wood production systems and the implications this holds for reducing deforestation and degradation and for local benefit-sharing....

Responsible forest management means that forests are managed in an environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable way. Forest certification is a labelling system used to encourage responsible forest management by providing added value to forest products from well-managed forests. Certification is also used as a tool to promote the...