community forestry
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From wild harvest to woodlot: Can masoi make conservation pay?
Communities on Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau have harvested masoi bark for about a decade. A community nursery and tree-monitoring…
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The trees it takes to build a home
In Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau, homes are built from locally available forest materials. Research into the trees used for…
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Cracking the forest product supply chain challenge — one tree nut at a time
If an okari nut falls in the forest, you’re definitely going to hear it. The oval crimson husk — larger than an adult’s palm —…
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Learning from the Humbo experience: How community-led forest restoration delivers climate and livelihoods
A group of 25 people from various faith-based non-governmental organizations and government offices visited the South Ethiopia Region from 12…
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Connecting cutting-edge research with policy and practice for forests and communities
Beyond their importance for climate and environmental solutions, forests and forested landscapes are central to the daily lives of billions…
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Community forest stewards: Managers, not labourers
There is growing recognition that many Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in the global tropics are good forest managers.…
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Q+A: Community forests in China’s Sichuan province play a role in panda conservation
In the misty mountains of Pingwu County in China’s province of Sichuan, community forests could offer promising solutions to the…
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What are Bhutan’s sacred forests worth?
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, a mountainous country nestled between India and Tibet, you can’t just wander into the forest…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
Different kinds of land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru have generally improved people’s…
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Can DRC’s community forests lift people out of poverty?
In the quest to reduce poverty, community forestry is an attractive endeavor. So much so that multiple countries with tropical…
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Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too.…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari village in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta province improved the local economy…
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In Indonesia, social forestry gets socialized
One challenge with social forestry is that its inner-workings aren’t always understood – often among communities involved in it most.…
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Why social forestry: Securing the sap
Dedy Aprianto packs his gear and begins walking from his home in Pahmungan village in Indonesia’s Lampung Province. A few…
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Why social forestry: Keeping the coffee
In a lush valley in Lampung Province in the southern tip of Sumatra sits the village of Tri Budi Syukur,…
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