The type and extent of forest tenure reforms in South Asia vary across countries. Yet,
all reforms share common objectives of addressing greater equity, realizing
communities’ rights, improving livelihoods and promoting conservation. Some other
noted commonalities include the state retaining majority ownership of forests while
still increasing community tenure and rights, and the emergence...
This infobrief summarizes the findings of a five-year process (2011-16) that explored how to strengthen women’s rights to forests and trees and increase their participation in forest decision making and benefits capture. It presents insights from the implementation
of Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), an approach tested in different cultural settings. ACM...
In developing countries, support structures for forest associations either do not exist or fail to reach those who need help most. It is this lack of “connectedness” that the “Forest
Connect” initiative (coordinated jointly by FAO and IIED in 13 partner countries) addresses.
More specifically, Forest Connect aims to better...
Success cases and good practices in forest owners' organizations in Eastern European countries
14 April 2014
14 April 2014
In 2011, the European Forest Institute Central-East European Regional Office (EFICEEC) conducted a study for FAO to improve knowledge on the origins, evolution and current situation of forest owners’ associations and cooperatives in selected Eastern European countries, assess their effectiveness, and analyse lessons learned from experience of legislation, policies, strategies,...
To increase forest farmers’ income and promote the rapid development of collective forest
areas, China has implemented reforms of its collective forest tenure system since 2003. The
main thrusts of these reforms have been clarifying property rights, reducing taxes,
liberalizing business operations, and regulating the transfer of rights over forest...
The document is a policy brief based on a series of reviews commissioned by FAO to increase understanding about the role of forest tenure in African countries and to provide information for the Global Forest Resources Assessment.
Tenure security for better forestry. Understanding forest tenure in South and Southeast Asia
14 April 2014
14 April 2014
This brief is based on the results of an intensive study carried out by FAO, in collaboration with the Asia Forest Partnership, to elicit data and indicators that would give more quantifiable evidence of the impact of various tenure regimes in South and Southeast Asia. The study, Understanding forest tenure...
Understanding forest tenure in Africa: opportunities and challenges for forest tenure diversification
14 April 2014
14 April 2014
Does forest tenure matter? In what way does it matter? What are the links among tenure, sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation?
This paper presents the main findings of research that was conducted by FAO with the aim of analysing and understanding the role of tenure arrangements, their...