In ten forest hotspot countries across Africa and South Asia, the IIED-steered Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) has been working since 2003 on ways to shift power over forests towards those who enable and pursue sustainable forest-linked livelihoods. This report aims to capture the current thinking and plans of FGLG.

This brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of Indigenous Peoples and community forest tenure rights globally. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law.

Forest Department of Andhra Pradesh has brought out this comprehensive State Forest Report 2011 depicting forest cover changes including
growth and drain between 2008 and 2009.

The objectives of the study are: Identify how forest ecosystems support enhancement of adaptive capacity of local communities; Analyze win-win roles of forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation (using multi-criteria analysis); Analyze policy gaps in Nepal to bring forests in the forefront of climate change adaptation while enhancing m

The overall objectives of the study was to explore possibility of REDD plus implementation in CFM areas. Furthermore the study assessed the bio-physical potentiality of forests in line to climate change adaptation.

This paper reviews three leading forest sector policy approaches relevant to benefit-sharing for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): payments for ecosystem services,

Forests are proved to be an efficient and economical method for reducing emission and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This paper seeks to understand whether decentralized management of forests can reduce forest loss in developing

This paper presents an overview of the distinctive features of communal tenure in different community-based land and natural resource management systems.