Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming
systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We …

Community forestry refers to forest management that has ecological sustainability and local
community benefits as central goals, with some degree of responsibility and authority for …

Developing countries are increasingly decentralizing forest governance by granting
indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to land. However, the …

This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term
maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case …

Community forests and protected areas have each been proposed as strategies to stop
deforestation. These management strategies should be regarded as hypotheses to be …

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand
for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi …

Deforestation captures most of the headlines, but there are also processes of forest
expansion that are widespread in Latin America. This paper explores why this process is so …

THE ISSUE OF DISPLACEMENT AND REHABILITATION of people from wildlife areas is a
recurrent and central theme in the context of crises in nature conservation in India. Few are …

At their most local, initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation
(REDD) will depend on rural people to manage forest resources. Although the design of …

Background Reserves are the principal means to conserve forests and biodiversity, but the
question of whether reserves work is still debated. In the Amazon, fires are closely linked to …