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Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
environment
climate change
community forestry
deforestation
forest land
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
natural resources management
land rights
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
With deforestation and other land uses accounting for 11 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the international community agrees on the need to address deforestation as an important component of climate change. Community forests represent a vital opportunity to curbing climate change that has been undervalued. Today communities have legal or official rights to at least 513 million hectares of forests, only about one eighth of the world’s total, comprising 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon.
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Unidades de Conservação mais desmatadas da Amazônia legal (2012-2015)

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Amazonia, Brazil
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal territory
deforestation
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
forestry
local communities
natural resources management
nature reserves
rural areas
territory
water management
As Unidades de Conservação cobrem 22% da Amazônia Legal e são uma estratégia eficaz para conservar animais, plantas e serviços ambientais, conter o desmatamento e manter o equilíbrio climático do Planeta. Contudo, as taxas de desmatamento em UCs vêm aumentando – em 2015 já superava a de 2012 em 79% –, assim como sua participação no desmatamento total da Amazônia, que passou de 6% em 2008 para 12% em 2015.
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Documentos del comité de la FAO de desarrollo forestal en los trópicos - extractos - Ordenación y utilización del bosque tropical húmedo

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1976
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
natural resources management
environment
forestry
common lands
land use
agricultural and rural legislation
land tenure
deforestation
forest land
right of access
land transfers
land ownership
Este nmero especial de Unasylva tiene dos objetivos principales. Pone a disposicin de nuestros lectores una seleccin de algunos de los trabajos presentados en el importante Cuarto perodo de sesiones del Comit de Desarrollo Forestal en los Trpicos, de la FAO y, de esta manera, pone de relieve la principal preocupacin de la Organizacin en materia forestal: cul es la mejor manera y la ms adecuada para el hombre de utilizar la formacin ecolgica menos conocida, es decir, los bosques tropicales hmedos.
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Management and utilization of the tropical moist forest - from the FAO Committee on forest development in the tropics - extracts

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1976
Italy
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
natural resources management
environment
forestry
common lands
land use
agricultural and rural legislation
land tenure
deforestation
forest land
right of access
land transfers
land ownership
This special issue of Unasylva has two main objectives. It brings to our readers an edited selection of some of the position papers of the important 4th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry Development in the Tropics and, in doing, this, it emphasizes FAO's principal concern in the field of forestry: how to make the best and wisest use of man's least understood ecological formation, the moist tropical forest.
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Desmatamento nos Assentamentos da Amazônia: Histórico, Tendências e Oportunidades

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2016
Brazil
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
climate change
deforestation
farmers
farmers associations
farmland
food security
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
rural areas
rural development
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
Os assentamentos de reforma agrária têm assumido um papel de destaque em relação ao desmatamento da Amazônia nos últimos cinco anos. Atualmente cerca de 8% do território dos estados amazônicos (41,8 milhões de hectares) encontra-se destinado aos 3.589 assentamentos de reforma agrária.
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The Forest Conservation and Management Act, 2016

Legislation & Policies
September, 2016
Kenya
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
alienation (land)
community forestry
community land rights
deforestation
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
forestry
investment funds
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land investments
land management
local communities
natural disasters
natural resources management
private forests
state forests
sustainable land management
urban forestry
THE FOREST CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2016 No. 34 of 2016

Date of Assent: 31st August, 2016

Date of Commencement: By Notice
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Land Use in Kenya; The case for a national land-use policy

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2015
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
cadastral administration
community forestry
deforestation
estate management
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
forestry
formal tenure
intensive land use
land administration
land management
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
management rights
natural resources management
private forests
state forests
statutory tenure
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
tenant farmers
tenant's rights
tenure regularization
water management
water rights
This book exposes the key land use and environmental problems facing Kenya today due to lack of an appropriate national land use policy. The publication details how the air is increasingly being polluted, the water systems are diminishing in quantity and deteriorating in quality. The desertification process threatens the land and its cover. The soils are being eroded leading to siltation of the ocean and lakes. The forests are being depleted with impunity thus destroying the water catchments.
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Creating political capital to promote devolution in the forestry sector--a case study of the forest communities in Banyumas district, Central Java, Indonesia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2005
Indonesia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
deforestation
decentralization
community forestry
rural development
property rights
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“Starvation Taught Me Art”: Tree Poaching, Gender and Cultural Shifts in Wood Curio Carving in Zimbabwe

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2008
Zimbabwe, Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
deforestation
women
land reform
Indigenous Peoples
This study looks at wood curio carving in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa. Although the local people, Ndebele and Shona, have always carved, they now face a weakened economy, due in large part to land reforms in 2000. Thus, more people sculpt wood as a form of livelihood. As one man said “Starvation taught me art”. As a result, gender roles are shifting as men and women begin to enter realms previously reserved for the other. Environmentally, carvers poaching trees deforests the woodlands. As more individuals turn to making crafts sustainability deteriorates.
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Forest governance and implementation of REDD+ in India

Reports & Research
October, 2010
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
land degradation
land governance
This report indicates that the Forest governance is identified as critical to the success of REDD+.

Implementation of robust REDD+ strategy is possible through Community Based Forest Governance.

Report talks on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) which is a global mechanism that aims at sustainable forest management (SFM) through protecting forests and enhancing carbon sequestration.

Report briefly describes The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006