Despite the critical role of government agencies in decentralizing natural resource governance, little work to date has focused on the organizational aspects of the responsible government bureaucracies. Based on a qualitative investigation of the perspectives of Forest Department employees involved in India’s Joint Forest Management (JFM) program, this paper aims to...

Much has been written about a supposed shift ‘from government to governance’ in many policy areas, including forest policy. However, the idea remains very much at the level of hypothesis as few empirical studies have confirmed the transition. Part of the problem is the multi-dimensional character of governance itself, which...

This book features the uncommon quality of bringing together original scientific knowledge on fruits and useful plants of the Amazon forest and the sensibility to detect the deep interaction between life, traditional knowledge of our forests and folk culture. With its language at the same time accessible, pleasant and practical,...

There is an urgent need for spatial explicit approaches that help in strategic planning and that follow a hierarchical analysis through multiple spatial scales: first identifying priority areas at the country level, and second, within each priority area, helping identify critical sites for the implementation of projects. In this manner,...

The COATLAHL Cooperative in Honduras first obtained FSC certification in 1996. The cooperative holds a group FSC certificate on behalf of 14 small timber-producing community groups, who manage natural broadleaf forests totalling 19,500 ha. COATLAHL provides marketing and sales services and has a furniture workshop with a group chain-of-custody certificate....

This report highlights the key national strategies and international regulations on gender equality and women’s empowerment related to REDD+ and their relationship to the evolving PRAP for Lam Dong. Information has been gathered from a literature review, a gap analysis, and interviews with key members of PRAP formulation team. Preliminary findings...

Would enhancing women's presence in community institutions of forest governance improve resource conservation and regeneration? This paper focuses on this little addressed question. Based on the author's primary data on communities managing their local forests in parts of India and Nepal, it statistically assesses whether the gender composition of a...

Can the gender composition of a local forest governance group affect conservation outcomes? This simple question remains largely unaddressed, despite the substantial work on women's representation in public bodies and the growing research on local environmental governance. Economists studying environmental collective action have paid little attention to the question of...

This document presents the findings of a study conducted in Kandy district, Sri Lanka. Kandy district, according to previous studies, is a woodfuel deficit area. The national scenario constructed during the preparation of the Forestry Sector Master Plan (FSMP) in 1995 shows that the national demand for biofuel is about...

The Sourcebook aims to deliver practical advice, guidelines, principles, and descriptions and illustrations of approaches that have worked so far to achieve the goal of effective gender mainstreaming in the agricultural operations of development agencies. It captures and expands the main messages of the World development Report 2008: Agriculture for...