Uganda
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“People want to understand their rights and options”
Legal empowerment clinics and healthy masculinities trainings have been piloted in Uganda to encourage participation and greater benefit-sharing for women…
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Informal trade in charcoal and firewood in Africa creates need for sustainable approach
As demand for charcoal and other wood energy soars in Central Africa, with wide-ranging consequences for biodiversity and local communities,…
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Tree initiative in Uganda refugee camps boosts nutrition and incomes
This is an excerpt of a blog originally published on Foodtank. Refugee camps provide crucial safe zones for displaced people…
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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 forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa?
Six countries, three reflections, and a team of scientists working to define a landscape that works for all
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Well-meaning tenure reforms can’t quash land conflicts
When countries revise their land and forest tenure laws, whereby rights are granted to people who depend on forests for…
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Making connections: New funding opens dialogue on landscape approach efforts
Over the past six years, conversations on sustainable forest management activities focused on transforming the way the international community addresses…
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Intersectionality is important for forests too
Aristocrats are like the enduring ironwoods, and commoners are like the strangling fig that kills. And yet, when Center for…
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Hindering instead of helping in Uganda
For better or worse, politics play a big role in Uganda’s forest tenure reform efforts. The topic was explored during…
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In Uganda, change is afoot for rights to forests
Fifteen years ago Uganda launched reforms to its land tenure system. The country’s forests, once lush and expansive, had come…
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Why gender matters for restoration
Four East Africa country representatives, a handful of restoration implementers, half a dozen scientists and a collection of gender specialists…
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What do forests have to do with food?
What can you cook from parkia seeds and baobab leaves? How about temple plant leaves and shea butter? New research…
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East Africa: An urgent need to monitor the forests
East Africa is home to some of the world’s most diverse forests: Montane forests, which include some of the highest…
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Tenure reform: Lessons from the Global South
Over the past two decades, a global trend has seen increasing recognition of the rights of communities and local governments…
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Gender relations in community forestry
Can field-based practitioners use Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) as an effective way to enhance women’s participation in natural resource management?…
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