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    In search of common ground: adaptive collaborative management in Cameroon

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
    In developing countries, forest management, sharing and collaboration has encountered major problems as reflected in Southern Cameroon’s forested landscape, which is challenged by differences in power, knowledge gaps, and competing land rights claims.
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    Undercutting Africa: Economic Partnership Agreements, forests and the European Union’s quest for Africa’s raw materials

    Friends of the Earth, 2008
    The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being negotiated by the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are causing concern. EPAs threaten to undermine economic development in some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, many ACP countries are refusing to sign up.
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    Wealth distribution, poverty and timber governance in Uganda

    Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, Uganda, 2008
    With the increased economic value of its natural resources, Uganda has recently increased public investment in its forestry sector. For instance, both the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and the Environment and Natural Resources Sector Investment Plan (ENR SIP) include increased budgetary allocations on forests.
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    Malawi's green gold: challenges and opportunities for small and medium forest enterprises in reducing poverty

    Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2008
    Approximately 85% of Malawi’s population live in rural areas and depend in some way on forests for their livelihoods. Recent government policies have highlighted how forest resources could do more to help reduce poverty through the development of small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs).
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    Beyond tenure: rights based approaches to peoples and forests. Some lessons from the Forest Peoples Programme

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008
    Although the historical focus on tenure reforms has resulted in some important improvements in the livelihoods of forest communities, it has not prevented them from suffering social exclusion and impoverishment.
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    Participatory management of forests and protected areas: a trainer’s manual

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    Participatory and inclusive approaches to forest and Protected Area management are not new. They have been advocated by various groups including NGOs, academics and forest resource users for over two decades. However, the interpretation and application of such approaches has remained patchy, diverse and controversial.
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    Future scenarios as a tool for collaboration in forest communities

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    This paper discusses how a participatory method to facilitate thinking about future scenarios can help change the way forest communities and local governments interact. It reviews a growing body of literature on future scenarios and shares first-hand experiences in forest communities in the northern Bolivian Amazon and the central provinces of Vietnam.
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    Malaysian palm oil - green gold or green wash?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    Focusing on Sarawak, this paper confronts the misleading claims of the Malaysian palmoil lobby and aims to inform decision makers about the serious sustainability challenges the palm oil sector faces on the ground. Key areas of contention highlighted include that:
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    Developing community-based forest enterprises in Nepal

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    Based on a study involving 28 different types of community-based forest enterprises (CBFEs), this policy brief summarises the important constraints affecting CBFEs in Nepal. It identifies key areas for intervention and suggests specific developmental and regulatory interventions for the government and other key organisations involved in promoting CBFEs.
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    The reality of trying to transform structures and processes: forestry in rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    What are the key constraints to improving forest based livelihoods within the forest sector? What are the key relationships that provide the institutional context in which forest based livelihoods operate? The authors focus on a forestry project in Karnataka, India to illustrate the processes and problems of supporting livelihood change in the forestry institutional environment.

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