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Prioritising support for locally controlled forest enterprises

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2014
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
agroforestry systems
forestry
This book comprises detailed assessments of the likely impacts of small-enterprise support across different forest subsectors in eight countries. The work advances recommendations that are sometimes generic and sometimes linked to support for particular subsectors of locally controlled forest enterprises, including improving natural resource governance and tenure, as well as supporting investment in organization-building for forest and farm producer organisations.
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REDD+, Governance, and Community Forestry: Highlights from the Forest Governance Learning Group Asia Experts' Meeting

Institutional & promotional materials
July, 2011
South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
community forestry
forestry
land governance
How can REDD+ benefit from the lessons of community forestry?

The Forest Governance Learning Group brought together 12 experts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, and the UN-REDD Programme to discuss how community forestry strengths and shortcomings can influence the further development of REDD+. This booklet summarizes their responses to nine timely questions and provides recommendations for future steps.
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Securing forest business: A risk management toolkit for locally controlled forest businesses

Training Resources & Tools
March, 2016
Global
Forest Tenure
agroforestry systems
capacity building
This toolkit is designed to guide the business manager (or whoever is tasked with the daily operations of running the forest business) and other business staff through a process of identifying and assessing possible business risks.
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Forest business incubation toolkit by and for Forest and Farm Producer Organisations

Training Resources & Tools
February, 2018
Global
Forest Tenure
agroforestry systems
This toolkit is designed to demystify the concept of business incubation as something that is not only relevant for and applied in urban sectors, but also in rural contexts and with a focus on the forest sector. The toolkit offers a framework specific to the forest and farm landscape — in which there are peculiarities of context that require special treatment.
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Democratising Forest Business: A Compendium of Successful Locally Controlled Forest Business Organizations

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2015
Global, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
community forestry
forest management plans
forestry
Forests worldwide are home to approximately 1.3 billion people and must cater to the multiple needs of people - from providing local goods and services (access to income, food, clean water, wood energy, construction materials, fertile soils, medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) to providing global goods and services (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral cycles). It is a tall order because many of these needs compete with one another.
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Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?

Reports & Research
October, 2020
Africa
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land management
pastoral lands
farming systems
agropastoral systems
agriculture
conflicts
land conflicts
pastoral land rights
farmers
pastoralists
This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations. Looking at the data available, we find that total levels of all forms of violence have been rising in the last ten years — especially in some countries in West and Central Africa.
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Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning in Sri Lanka: A Case Study

Reports & Research
December, 1993
Sri Lanka
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
land law
land policies
land use planning
environment
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
land economics
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

This review does not attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, we highlight:

benchmarks in the evolution of land use policies in Sri Lanka;

the actual contribution made to decisions about land use by systematic information on land resources.

Recommendations are made to provide better support for decision-makers at all levels. A summary of legislation, a list of agencies responsible for planning and land resources data and an extensive sourced bibliography are provided.
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Prosperity in place

Meaningful work for mobile youth that enhances forest landscapes

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Global
Forest Tenure
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
agroforestry systems
forest management plans
This report explores how forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can best nurture youth and address youth migration. Youth (15-24 years of age) bring energy and innovation to forest and farm production systems. Of a total global youth population of 1.2 billion, 85% live in developing countries where they make up the mainstay of the rural workforce. Yet, 75% of youth are currently classified as underutilised (unemployed; in irregular or informal jobs; or outside of formal education and training).
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Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land - Briefing Note

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land investments
This briefing note presents the Executive Summary of a LEGEND paper that synthesises the key lessons from recent partnership projects in sub-Saharan Africa that explored how private business can partner with civil society stakeholders to demonstrate how agricultural investments can operate responsibly by respecting the legitimate land rights of local communities.
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Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land investments
This report details practical lessons on how to approach responsible land based investments in agriculture, derived from the experiences of LEGEND challenge fund projects and other pilots in Africa.