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Community Forestry in the Philippines

Reports & Research
November, 2005
Philippines

Dr. Juan Pulhin reports how the forest sector is addressing this challenge with some ambitious targets that include: uplands poverty halved in 15 years; forests under sustainable management, within 10 years; healthy forest-based industries, within 5 years in this report.

ForInfo Factsheet: Forest Certification for Ecosystem Services

Institutional & promotional materials
November, 2013
Vietnam

The project covers two pilot sites encompassing 41,000 ha of forest land: Vinh Tu Commune in Quang Tri Province and Huong Son District in Ha Tinh Province. Both sites are commercially used forest and have potential for a certification mechanism. The certification project presumes that ecosystem services can be provided alongside sustainable forest management. Innovatively, the pilot test will help develop national standards and indicators for ecosystem certification.

Community Forestry Enterprise development in Myanmar through socially responsible business approaches

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2018
Myanmar

This policy brief was developed based on findings from a series of sub-national and national multi-stakeholder workshops organized between July and November 2018. These workshops shared the experiences of community forestry enterprise (CFE) development and private sector partnership in Myanmar. This report highlights the findings. 

Insight: Notes from the Field, Issue III - Innovative Approaches with Non-Timber Forest Products

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Bhutan
India
Laos
Nepal
Thailand
South-Eastern Asia

Debate over the potential of NTFPs for achieving ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation has grown in the past decade. Concern has been raised that NTFP activities may not always provide the poor with the expected benefits, and could in some cases even act as a poverty trap (see discussion in Overview paper). Considering these concerns, the objective of this publication is to share experiences on how innovative approaches have led to successful outcomes such as increased access of poor forest dwellers to resources and markets, increased participation, and benefit sharing.

ရွှေရိုးမ သစ်တောအခြေပြုကြိမ်အချာထည်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း

Institutional & promotional materials
August, 2018
Myanmar

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ပထမဆုံးဒေသခံပြည်သူအစုအဖွဲ့ပိုင်သစ်တောအခြပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းကို ဒေသခံပြည်သူများကိုယ်တိုင် ဦးဆောင်ပြီး ရွှေရိုးမ သစ်တောအခြေပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းလုပ်ကိုင်နေပါသည်။အဆိုပါလုပ်ငန်းသည် တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိသော အာရှဆိုင်ရာ သစ်တောစီမံအုပ်ချုပ်မှုနှင့် ကုန်သွယ်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အပိုင်း (၃) စီမံကိန်း (Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade-III project RAFT-3) ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည့် ဂွမြို့နယ် ဒေသခံပြည်သူများသည်စတင်ဖွဲ့စည်းတည်ထောင်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ဤလက်ကမ်းစာစောင်သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ သစ်တောအခြေပြုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ကြုံတွေ့နေသည့်အခက်အခဲများ နှင့် ရရှိနေသည့်အခွင့်အလမ်းများအကျဉ်းချုပ်ကိုဖော်ပြထားပ

Enabling Forest Users to Exercise Their Rights: Rethinking regulatory barriers to communities and smallholders earning their living from timber

Reports & Research
February, 2013
South-Eastern Asia

In many Asian countries, communities and smallholders are faced with barriers to exercising their tenure rights and to making a living from selling timber and other forest products. This study puts forward an effort to respond to the issue of restrictions, in the form of regulatory barriers, in the pursuit of sustainable forest management.

ข้อมูลพื้นฐาน - ชุมชนบ้านพรงลำบิด

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Thailand

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านพรงลำบิดไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

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Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Vietnam

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Vietnam

Community forestry supports local level climate change adaptation by enhancing resilience in multiple ways: supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks and regulating microclimates. However, adaptation planning has, by and large, not included community forestry as a viable climate change adaptation tool.