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    Community forestry and sustainable livelihoods: the Nepal-UK community forestry project

    Eldis Document Store, 1999
    Can the livelihoods approach refocus existing projects to better address poverty elimination? How difficult is it for already established projects to realign themselves with the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework? Can our understanding of the complexities of theSL approach be 'improved' by linking them with other frameworks?
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    From forest reserve to national park: change in legal status and impacts on livelihoods and biodiversity resources, Mt. Elgon, Uganda

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008
    Uganda is well endowed with natural resources and some 24 per cent is at present under forest cover. However, as in most Africa countries, Uganda’s forests are in decline. Mount Elgon forest was gazetted under the Forest Department from 1938. The status was changed to a National Park in 1993. Its management was transferred to the wildlife authorities.
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    Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.
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    WWF discussion paper: policy approaches and positive incentives for REDD

    Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 2008
    This paper aims to provide an overview to potential policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in the post-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In particular, the paper discusses the potential implications or key elements for consideration when determining positive incentives for REDD.
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    Eldis Environment Resource Guide

    Resource guide on Eldis website covering global environmental issues. Guide includes links to full-text online documents and directory of related web sites, events and job announcements.
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    Financing sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2008
    Despite the adoption of many international agreements over the last decades, degradation of forests and deforestation has continued. Since this is largely due to the market's failure to account for forests' multifunctionality, this issue argues that a new, holistic approach is necessary to ensure sustainable forest management (SFM) is adequately supported and financed.
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    Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    The opportunities to profit from commercialising forest products promise to improve livelihoods in the rural Amazon, but only if local communities have ownership over the ways in which their resources are exploited. This policy brief examines case studies in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru with the aim to establish the importance of genuinely equitable partnerships in local forest management schemes.
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    Future forestry education. Responding to expanding societal needs

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2008
    Forestry education in recent years has largely failed to adequately respond to the dynamics in forestry practice, the demands of the job market and the challenges of new global forestry paradigms.
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    Social responsibility agreements in Ghana’s forestry sector

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and implementing “Social Responsibility Agreements” (SRAs) with forest communities.
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    Forestry Research Institute of Malawi (FRIM)

    The Forestry Research Institute of Malawi (FRIM) aims to conduct operational forestry research to generate usable technologies and provide information for sustainable management, conservation and util

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