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Book La prise en compte de la tenure fonci  re et de la gouvernance dans l   valuation des opportunit  s de restauration des paysages forestiers

Download or read book La prise en compte de la tenure fonci re et de la gouvernance dans l valuation des opportunit s de restauration des paysages forestiers written by McLain, R. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De nombreux pays ont adopté la méthodologie d’évaluation des opportunités de restauration des paysages forestiers (MEOR) dans le but d’orienter le développement de stratégies nationales et infranationales. Cette étude analyse les rapports MEOR de huit pays afin de déterminer le degré de prise en compte des régimes fonciers et des questions connexes de gouvernance. Si tous les rapports relèvent que l’absence de droits ou peu de droits freinent les efforts de mise à l’echelle de la restauration des paysages forestiers (RPF) à plus grande échelle, aucun n’apporte de description précise sur les droits et responsabilités qui incombent aux personnes ou aux communautés en ce qui concerne les arbres, les forêts ou les terres, en vertu du droit écrit ou coutumier. Nous proposons un cadre d’actualisation des droits, sous la forme d’un diagnostic, afin de poser des bases solides permettant de repérer les réformes politiques nécessaires pour résoudre les problèmes de droits qui entravent la mise en oeuvre de la RPF. Les initiatives RPF étayées par une évaluation approfondie des droits fonciers contribueront à la réalisation de leur double objectif de regagner la fonctionnalité écologique d’une part et d’améliorer le bien-être humain d’autre part.

Book The Forests of the Congo Basin  State of the Forests 2021

Download or read book The Forests of the Congo Basin State of the Forests 2021 written by Eba’a Atyi, R. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowing our lands and resources

Download or read book Knowing our lands and resources written by Roué, Marie and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forests of the Congo Basin

Download or read book The Forests of the Congo Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2nd Pan African Symposium on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Africa

Download or read book 2nd Pan African Symposium on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Africa written by Bihini won wa Musiti and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual publication results from a four-day symposium aimed at capturing the general directions and analytical issues that characterize approaches to sustainable use in Africa. The papers included in this work are organized under four major headings: modes of use, devolution, scale issues and external issues. Authors explore these themes through the use of case studies and the description of specific regional experiences. External issues are further explored in a series of commissioned policy papers which have also been included.

Book An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Download or read book An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources written by World Conservation Union and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers. Considered the most forward looking regional agreement of the time, it influenced significantly the development of environmental law in Africa. Two and a half decades of intense developments in international environmental law made it necessary to revise this treaty, update its provisions and enlarge its scope. This was undertaken under the auspices of the African Union (previously OAU), and the revision was adopted by its Heads of State and Government in July 2003 in Maputo. The introduction provides an overview of this new international treaty, as well as a commentary to each of its provisions.

Book A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest landscape restoration

Download or read book A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest landscape restoration written by Evans, K. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest landscape restoration (FLR) requires a long-term commitment from a range of stakeholders to plan the restoration initiative collaboratively and see it through successfully. This is only possible when the people involved – whether they are landholde

Book The context of natural forest management and FSC certification in Brazil

Download or read book The context of natural forest management and FSC certification in Brazil written by Claudia Romero and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management decisions on appropriate practices and policies regarding tropical forests often need to be made in spite of innumerable uncertainties and complexities. Among the uncertainties are the lack of formalization of lessons learned regarding the impacts of previous programs and projects. Beyond the challenges of generating the proper information on these impacts, there are other difficulties that relate with how to socialize the information and knowledge gained so that change is transformational and enduring. The main complexities lie in understanding the interactions of social-ecological systems at different scales and how they varied through time in response to policy and other processes. This volume is part of a broad research effort to develop an independent evaluation of certification impacts with stakeholder input, which focuses on FSC certification of natural tropical forests. More specifically, the evaluation program aims at building the evidence base of the empirical biophysical, social, economic, and policy effects that FSC certification of natural forest has had in Brazil as well as in other tropical countries. The contents of this volume highlight the opportunities and constraints that those responsible for managing natural forests for timber production have experienced in their efforts to improve their practices in Brazil. As such, the goal of the studies in this volume is to serve as the foundation to design an impact evaluation framework of the impacts of FSC certification of natural forests in a participatory manner with interested parties, from institutions and organizations, to communities and individuals.

Book Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration

Download or read book Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration written by Chazdon, R.L. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision-making bodies at all scales face an urgent need to conserve remaining forests, and reestablish forest cover in deforested and degraded forest landscapes. The scale of the need, and the opportunity to make a difference, is enormous. Degradation is

Book The Forests of the Congo Basin

Download or read book The Forests of the Congo Basin written by Carlos de Wasseige and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 State of the Forest report (SOF) benefited from financial support from the European Union, the United States, Germany, France and UNESCO. It represents the collaborative effort of over 100 individuals from a diversity of institutions and the forestry administrations of the Central African countries. The SOF process began with the selection and definition of indicators relevant to monitoring the state of forests in Central Africa. The indicators are structured around three thematic areas: (i) forest cover; (ii) management of production forests; and (iii) conservation and biodiversity. They are presented in a hierarchical structure at the regional, national and management unit (i.e. logging concessions and protected areas) levels. The indicators were vetted by a representative panel of stakeholders of forest management in Central Africa. The indicators are used to guide an annual data collection process carried out between April and August by national groups of four to ten individuals working within the forestry administrations. The data reported on in the 2010 SOF were primarily collected in 2009 and 2010. Results were validated in national workshops attended by government officials as well as representatives of environmental NGOs, the private sector and development projects. The data provided an important basis for the authors of the 11 chapters of the 2010 SOF, which were under the coordination of a scientific committee of international renown. A final workshop was held 29-30 March, 2011 in Douala to review a draft report. Following amendments based on comments from a wide audience of experts the final layout was completed.

Book Systematic review of effects on biodiversity from oil palm production

Download or read book Systematic review of effects on biodiversity from oil palm production written by Sini Savilaakso and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade there has been a growing interest in bioenergy, driven by concerns about global climate change, growing energy demand, and depleting fossil fuel reserves. The predicted rise in biofuel demand makes it important to understand the potential consequences of expanding biofuel cultivation. A systematic review was conducted on the biodiversity impacts of three first-generation biofuel crops (oil palm, soybean, and jatropha) in the tropics. The study focused on the impacts on species richness, abundance (total number of individuals or occurrences), community composition, and ecosystem functions related to species richness and community composition.

Book Grassroots Indicators for Desertification

Download or read book Grassroots Indicators for Desertification written by and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1996 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development

Download or read book Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development written by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Environmental Law and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an updated edition of the 1995 version. In the mid-1980's, the IUCN CEL, in consultation with leading experts from around the world, began to respond to a need later identified by Agenda 21: the preparation of an integrated framework for international environmental law.

Book Multifunctionality The Policy Implications

Download or read book Multifunctionality The Policy Implications written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the path-breaking work Multifunctionality: Towards an Analytical Framework, this report takes the subject a step further. It attempts to guide policy-makers to the best possible decisions taking account of the multifunctional character of agriculture.

Book An overview of current knowledge about the impacts of forest management certification

Download or read book An overview of current knowledge about the impacts of forest management certification written by Claudia Romero and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The often-claimed environmental and social benefits of forest certification remain to be empirically evaluated. Despite numerous publications on the impacts of tropical forest certification, virtually all are based on secondary sources of information and not on field-based measurements. This paper proposes an empirical research framework for a carefully designed field-based evaluation of the ecological, social, economic, and political impacts of tropical forest management certification taking into account location-specific contextual factors which shape certification outcomes. The paper also suggests that solid methodological quantitative and qualitative approaches be used to build proper counterfactuals on which to base the comparisons for inferring impacts, all informed by a thorough theory-of-change and through processes that bring stakeholders together. The proposed research framework represents a first step towards the design and future implementation of evaluation research in the context of tropical forest certification on a global basis. It is hoped the research framework proposed contributes to learning from past mistakes, building on lessons learned and enhancing decision-making towards the maintenance of forest values over the long term, and for the benefit of society as a whole.

Book Integrating tenure and governance into assessments of forest landscape restoration opportunities

Download or read book Integrating tenure and governance into assessments of forest landscape restoration opportunities written by McLain, R. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries have adopted the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) to guide the development of national and subnational restoration strategies. This study analyzes ROAM reports for eight countries to determine the extent to which tenure and related governance considerations were incorporated. Although all of the reports found that lack of rights or weak rights impeded efforts to scale up forest landscape restoration (FLR), none provided robust descriptions of the rights and responsibilities of individuals or communities to trees, forests or land under statutory or customary law. We propose a rights actualization framework as a diagnostic that can provide a solid foundation to identify policy reforms needed to address rights-related barriers to FLR implementation. FLR initiatives informed by a robust tenure rights assessment will enhance the likelihood of achieving their twin goals of improving ecological functionality and human well-being.