Wood energy is vital to the livelihoods of rural communities in the Mekong region, where over five times more fuelwood than timber is extracted for daily use. However, the energy needs of the community are commonly not factored into the establishment of market-oriented enterprises, which can lead to supply disruptions and subsequent impact on income as well as the environment. Hence, the importance of establishing sustainable community forest (CF) management, to ensure a stable provision of wood energy and to prevent gaps in supply and demand is significant.

This book captures the main lessons and issues emerging from national and regional discussions on 'benefit sharing.' It also presents one case study from each country, selected to highlight issues in different sectors. As we struggle to find ways to strengthen the poverty reduction potential of CBNRM, we hope that this book offers some practical areas to target for future action. 

ปี 2562 ที่ผ่านมา ได้มีความเคลื่อนไหวมากมายเกี่ยวกับนโยบายกฎหมายการจัดการที่ดินและป่าไม้ไทย ซึ่งส่งผลกระทบอย่างมีนัยสำคัญต่อผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียจำนวนมาก โดยเฉพาะผู้คนและชุมชนที่อยู่อาศัย ทำกินในพื้นที่ป่า ศูนย์วนศาสตร์ชุมชนเพื่อคนกับป่า (รีคอฟ)  ประเทศไทย โครงการ Voice of Mekong Forest  เครือข่ายป่าไม้ภาคพลเมืองและภาคี ได้ร่วมกันจัดทำหนังสือ “ล้อมวงคุย นโยบายและกฏหมายป่าไม้-ที่ดินไทย 2562 สู่การเตรียมความพร้อมชุมชน” ขึ้น โดยรวบรวมความเคลื่อนไหวสำคัญด้านนโยบายและกฎหมายที่เก

About 32 million ha, half of Myanmar’s land area, is classified as forest area. Most of the 20 million ha of other wooded land is fallow land used by villagers for shifting cultivation. About 20 to 25 million people out of a total population of 60 million are estimated to use forests as one of their sources of livelihoods.

Over the last two decades, Vietnam has made significant progress in forest tenure reform, which aims to meaningfully include all relevant stakeholders in the management of forest resources. Under these reforms, forest area officially under the management of local people has expanded from almost nothing in the early 1990s to nearly 3.5 million ha (27% of the national forest area) in 2006. However, until now little is known about the extent to which such tenure reform has worked in practice and how it has affected local people’s livelihoods and wellbeing.

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านทุ่งยาวไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

Hand tools are the most commonly used for subsistence or household use when harvesting bamboo or fuelwood. Axes, two-man handsaws and other hand tools are presented and discussed in this factsheet.

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านคำน้อยไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

The Third Regional Forum for People and Forests was organized by RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests in collaboration with the Royal Forest Department, the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet), the ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN), and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), along with support from Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

This is the summary report of the forum. 

Forests worldwide are home to approximately 1.3 billion people and must cater to the multiple needs of people - from providing local goods and services (access to income, food, clean water, wood energy, construction materials, fertile soils, medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) to providing global goods and services (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral cycles). It is a tall order because many of these needs compete with one another.

In The National Forest Plan of 1977, the poor and mountainous kingdom of Nepal recognized the need for the people’s participation in managing its forests. In an article for RECOFTC, Dr Keshav Kanel of Nepal’s Department of Forest, records the changes in society, governance and economy wrought by this gradual – but not uncontroversial – move to community forestry.