Should public or private money finance efforts to save forests?

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (Tebtebba) & Scott Poynton (The Forest Trust) debate the status and role of public and private finance to reduce forest loss and degradation on Mongabay.com

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Scott Poynton - TEBTEBBA, The Forest Trust

RRI has partnered with Mongabay.com to present diverging viewpoints from Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (Executive Director, Tebtebba) and Scott Poynton (Executive Director, The Forest Trust) on mongabay.com and ahead of the 11th Dialogue: “The Status and Role of Public and Private Finance to Reduce Forest Loss and Degradation". Go here to read the full debate: http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1010-rri_redd_debate.html

Land Portal

- International Land Coalition

A platform designed and managed by the International Land Coalition to aggregate information sources around the web in an effort to share land related information, help monitor trends, identify information gaps and to promote effective and sustainable land governance.

Conflict Bibliography

- RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests

Focusing on conflict in the context of community forestry in the Asia-Pacific region, the RECOFTC Conflict Bibliography stores a collection of more than 100 available publications ranging from case studies to toolkits.

Land Tenure Center Library

University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Land Tenure Center, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Land Tenure Center (LTC) works to improve environmental sustainability in developing countries, where extraordinary biological and cultural diversity often coincides with acute poverty. Environmental sustainability is vital for the poor, who depend heavily on natural resources and ecosystem services and are likely to suffer disproportionately from disease and hardship when the environment is degraded. Linking poverty alleviation to environmental conservation is complex and requires good governance and sound institutions. For this reason, LTC stresses local collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach to research and training.

Minds@UW

University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Land Tenure Center, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

This link takes you to the UW main library, where the entire Land Tenure Center publication collection will soon be available in digitized format and easily searched by theme, country, etc. These publications number in the several hundreds and date back to the 1960s. The process of digitizing is ongoing. Currently more than 200 titles are available.

FAO Forest Tenure Assessment

- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

In the 2005 issue of the Global Forest Resources Assessment, FAO dedicated a specific table for the collection of data and classification of the world's forests into two main categories: public and private (plus one additional category for non-classified forests).

In addition, FAO is conducting a more detailed assessment on forest tenure, institutional arrangements and management agreements, in order to compile, analyse and disseminate information that is important to the international community and governments when designing policies which are responsive to the increasing role played by stakeholders in the forestry sector. The purpose of this site is to present the findings of this assessment, with the final aim of clarifying and raising awareness about the linkages between forest tenure, sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation.

Logging Off

The online resource for information on Voluntary Parntership Agreements

- Logging Off

A website set up to "exchange clear, concise and up to date information" on Voluntary Partnership Agreement negotiations, with individual country pages that track VPA negotiations by country. The site is managed by a group of NGOs from European and timber-producing countries.

Land Resource Action Network

- Land Resource Action Network

A network of researchers and social movements committed to the promotion and advancement of the fundamental rights of individuals and communities to land, and to equitable access to the resources necessary for life with human dignity.

www.poverty-wellbeing.net

The platform on livelihoods, equity and empowerment

- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Intercooperation, Overseas Development Institute

One fifth of the world's population still lives in absolute poverty, and the concerns of poor people continue to feature insufficiently in the design of development policies. Whilst much has been written on the subject, it is not always easy to find material in one place – and particularly clear, succinct information on how development practitioners can shape their field programmes, and their contributions to policy dialogue, in a “pro-poor” manner. The “Poverty – Well-being” platform seeks to provide such information, organised around key themes.