Rights and Resources Initiative - Supporting Forest Tenure Policy and Market Reforms

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The Rights and Resources Initiative is a coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in conservation, research and development. Together, we work to encourage greater global action on forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control and benefits from forests and trees. Learn more... Forests cover close to 30 percent of the world's land area, and more than a billion people rely on forests for food, fuel and income. To date, dominant models of forest industry and conservation have often exacerbated poverty and social conflicts and precluded pro-poor economic growth. The lack of clear rights to own and use land and trade in forest products has driven millions of forest dwellers to poverty, and has encouraged widespread illegal logging and forest loss. Learn more...	Forest-Related Conflict Climate Change and Governance in the Forest Sector Who's Afraid of REDD? Reflections from the Rights, Forests and Climate Change conference October 27, 2008 Conference on Rights, Forests and Climate Change October 15, 2008 RRI supports Indigenous Voices at World Conservation Congress October 07, 2008

Aborvitae 36: Rights-based approaches to forest conservation Gill Shepherd, Liz Alden Wily, Eugenia Ponce de Leon, Annalisa Savaresi Hartmann, Janis Bristol Alcorn, Bob Fisher, Gonzalo Oveido, Madhu Sarin, Arturo Santos, Julian Orozco, Evelyn Chaves, Marcus Colchester, Augusta Molnar, Andy White, Arvind Khare, William Sunderlin, Nii Ashie Kotey, Paulo de Tarso de Lara Pires, Thomas Greiber The debate on rights-based approaches to conservation is occurring at a time when conservation thinking is being profoundly challenged. The need for conservation to recognize the rights of those people who are most impacted by global conservation initiatives makes rights-based thinking not only a question of ethics and social justice, but also a... Read More...	Land encroachment threatens Nepalese forest communities November 05, 2008 PNG Supreme Court rules Rimbunan Hijau concessions illegal October 29, 2008 Ecuador passes new Constitution acknowledging indigenous rights October 23, 2008 Chinese goverment announces pro-growth land policy for rural farmers October 19, 2008

The Rights and Resources Initiative is a coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in conservation, research and development. Together, we work to encourage greater global action on forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control and benefits from forests and trees. Learn more...

Forest

Forests cover close to 30 percent of the world's land area, and more than a billion people rely on forests for food, fuel and income. To date, dominant models of forest industry and conservation have often exacerbated poverty and social conflicts and precluded pro-poor economic growth. The lack of clear rights to own and use land and trade in forest products has driven millions of forest dwellers to poverty, and has encouraged widespread illegal logging and forest loss. Learn more...

Who's Afraid of REDD? Reflections from the Rights, Forests and Climate Change conference
October 27, 2008
Conference on Rights, Forests and Climate Change
October 15, 2008
RRI supports Indigenous Voices at World Conservation Congress
October 07, 2008

Aborvitae 36: Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

Gill Shepherd, Liz Alden Wily, Eugenia Ponce de Leon, Annalisa Savaresi Hartmann, Janis Bristol Alcorn, Bob Fisher, Gonzalo Oveido, Madhu Sarin, Arturo Santos, Julian Orozco, Evelyn Chaves, Marcus Colchester, Augusta Molnar, Andy White, Arvind Khare, William Sunderlin, Nii Ashie Kotey, Paulo de Tarso de Lara Pires, Thomas Greiber

The debate on rights-based approaches to conservation is occurring at a time when conservation thinking is being profoundly challenged. The need for conservation to recognize the rights of those people who are most impacted by global conservation initiatives makes rights-based thinking not only a question of ethics and social justice, but also a...