After about a hundred years of exclusive government control, forests in India are now being increasingly managed with people’s participation. Almost all states in India have passed enabling resolutions to facilitate what is now popularly called the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme. However...
This Policy Brief: (1) outlines recommendations for change and improvement; (2) describes the legal and institutional infrastructure of decentralized forest management in Cameroon; (3) describes how basic mechanisms of decentralized forest management operate in practice; and (4) summarizes the fi...
Oyono, P.R.
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Ribot, J.C.
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Assembe-Mvondo, S.
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Logo, P.B.
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[Improving decentralized forest management in Cameroon: options and opportunities from ten years of experience]
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Improving decentralized forest management in Cameroon: options and opportunities from ten years of experience
Growth of the national cattle herd is contributing to rapid and inappropriate deforestation in Honduras. Field research was conducted in the Department of Olancho to better understand this problem and to assess the possibilities for local interest in forest protection. A recent upsurge in the pro...
Sunderlin, William D.
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[Deforestation, livelihoods, and the preconditions for sustainable management in Olancho, Honduras]
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Deforestation, livelihoods, and the preconditions for sustainable management in Olancho, Honduras
Au Burkina Faso, l’aménagement des forêts naturelles a pour principaux objectifs l’exploitation du bois de feu et du pâturage. Il concerne également des activités secondaires tels que la chasse et le développement du tourisme de vision. Ces activités se concentrent principalement dans les régions...
Sawadogo, L.
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[Adapter les approches de l’amenagement durable des forets seches aux aptitudes sociales, economiques et technologiques en Afrique: le cas du Burkina Faso]
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Adapter les approches de l’amenagement durable des forets seches aux aptitudes sociales, economiques et technologiques en Afrique: le cas du Burkina Faso
Obidzinski, K.
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Andrianto, A.
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Wijaya, C.
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[Timber smuggling in Indonesia critical or overstated problem?: forest governance lessons from Kalimantan]
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Timber smuggling in Indonesia critical or overstated problem?: forest governance lessons from Kalimantan
Nambiar, E.K.S.
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Brown, A.G.
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[Management of soil, nutrients and water in tropical plantation forests]
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Management of soil, nutrients and water in tropical plantation forests
Scherr, Sara J.
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Buck, L.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Proceeding of a Workshop on Policies for Local Organization in Natural Resources Management: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda]
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Proceeding of a Workshop on Policies for Local Organization in Natural Resources Management: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda