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Legal frameworks and access to common pool resources

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2004
Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Cambodia, India, Russia, Mexico
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary law
customary tenure
natural resources management
land governance
agricultural and rural legislation
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
common lands
common property
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
In recent years, local people and rural communities have assumed increasing prominence in strategies for natural resource management.This paper briefly reviews some of the central legal issues that are associated with this shift. In doing so, its goals are limited. It does not ad dress fundamental questions about when, where and what kind of management works, nor attempt to identify the political, social, economic and environmental ingredient s for success – subjects on which there is a huge, if still inconclusive, literature.
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Proceedings of training of national correspondents on assessing and monitoring of forest land use and changes

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
India, South Africa, Uganda, Guatemala, Germany
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest land
natural resources management
At the request of its member countries, FAO has been carrying out global forest resources assessments (FRA) since 1947, in collaboration with countries and other partners, notably the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The global FRA reports on the worldwide status and trends of forest resources, their management and uses. It is based on nationally validated data from national forest inventories and assessments.
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Land and water – the rights interface

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
United States of America, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Iceland, Gabon, Pakistan, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, Hungary, Italy, Tanzania, Suriname, Kuwait, Uganda, Brazil, Canada
agricultural land management
land policies
land
land use
natural resources management
water management
land tenure
water rights
land rights
land management
land governance
land ownership
This publication explores various aspects of the interface between water rights and land tenure. It is intended to synthetize and assess current learning on this topic, to define salient issues and to propose fruitful approaches for further investigation.
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What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific. Executive Summary

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Fiji, Switzerland, United States of America, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, Colombia, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Ecuador, India, Paraguay, Brazil, Asia, Americas, Oceania
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Over the past two decades, political developments as well as macro-economic and extra-sectoral policies have affected the forests of Asia and the Pacific to an unprecedented extent, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. Responding to the diminishing capacity of the region's natural forests to produce timber, many countries have turned to forest plantations. Governments and their respective forest agencies are asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees.
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What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Fiji, Switzerland, United States of America, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Ecuador, India, Paraguay, Brazil, Asia, Americas, Oceania
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Over the past two decades, political developments as well as macro-economic and extra-sectoral policies have affected the forests of Asia and the Pacific to an unprecedented extent, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. Responding to the diminishing capacity of the region's natural forests to produce timber, many countries have turned to forest plantations. Governments and their respective forest agencies are asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees.
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Global forest resources assessment update 2005 - Proceedings - Sub-regional workshop for national correspondents from anglophone African countries

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Mozambique, South Africa, Gambia, Somalia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Namibia, Finland, Malawi, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
The Global Forest Resources Assessment Update 2005 was specially mandated by the Committee on Forestry (COFO) during its meeting in 2003, where member countries endorsed recommendations from an Expert Consultation held in the Kotka, Finland in 2002 (Kotka IV). For this purpose, all countries have been requested to provide national reports to FAO during 2004. As in previous global assessments, FRA 2005 relies on contributions by countries and a network of National Correspondents to FRA has been established.