A significant shift has taken place in global forest tenure, with a doubling of the forest area under community ownership (or administration over the past 15 years). There is every indication that communal tenure will double again over the next 15 years. Recognition of traditional and indigenous ...
Molnar,A.
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Gomes, D.
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Sousa, R.
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Vidal, N.
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Hojer, R.F.
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Arguelles, L.A.
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Kaatz, S.
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Martin, A.
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Donini, G.
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Scherr, Sara J.
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White, A.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest]
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Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest
This policy brief lays out strategies to improve the contribution of forest markets to local livelihoods. It is offered as a first step in a longer-term effort to promote forest markets that enhance the livelihoods of poor people while conserving forest resources. While forests are providing crit...
Community based forestry has the potential to contribute much more to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction than is the case today. This paper describes and analyzes these potentials and demonstrates their feasibility with real world cases of community forest businesses and inno...
Scherr, Sara J.
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White, A.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty alleviation: making markets work for low-income producers]
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A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty alleviation: making markets work for low-income producers