Forest Tenure

The approval of the 2004 Forest protection and Development Law was a milestone which marked the legal recognition of community forestry in Viet Nam. Yet, general understanding of community forests as only the area legally allocated to village communities has undervalued the role of community forestry.

Esta hoja informative es el resultado del proyecto "Promoviendo la prevención y gestión de conflictos en el proceso de titulación de tierras de las comunidades nativas de la Amazonía andina de San Martín - Perú", ejecutado por la ONG Paz y Esperanza (Moyobamba), con el apoyo de la cooperación alemana para el desarrollo, implementada por la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

Los conflictos territoriales incluyen superposiciones de diferentes categorías territoriales otorgadas por el Estado en sus diferentes niveles y las tensiones entre vecinos (conflictos sociales), todos estos  representan "obstáculos para la titulación" o pueden limitar la futura gestión territorial de las comunidades nativas.

Wetlands and peatlands are key

ecosystems containing approximately

20% of global soil organic carbon stocks.

Peat swamp forests have sequestered

carbon for millennia, storing a globally

significant reservoir below ground.

A discussion paper attempting to take stock of what works and does not work in interventions seeking to promote and enhance women’s land rights. Looks at both individual and community land tenure, rural and urban land, arable and forest land. Describes a variety of interventions in as much detail as possible to understand why the intervention worked or not.

Across the tropics, development banks and conservation donors are investing millions in property mapping and registration projects to improve accountability for deforestation. An evaluation of the effectiveness and accuracy of existing environmental registries is crucial to assure the success of future efforts.

The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others.

This report identifies land conflict drivers and land-related disputes as well as grievance mechanisms and how LIFTs activities interact with these;including recommendations to reform the relevant grievance redress mechanisms..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

This summary of LIFTs Rapid Assessment identifies land conflict drivers and land-related disputes as well as grievance mechanisms and how LIFTs activities interact with these;including recommendations to reform the relevant grievance redress mechanisms..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

Successful adoption of natural resource management technologies requires that important fundamentals of property rights be established. Because disputes over property rights occur universally, the ability to successfully defend one's rights to property exercises a central influence on the tenure security necessary for technology adoption.

Durante el siglo pasado, la deforestación de las valiosas selvas tropicales del mundo ha sido un factor primordial en los crecientes problemas del cambio climático, poniendo en peligro el futuro del planeta.

Forests at the tropical Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (VRAE), the second coca-growing region of Peru, are public common resources and nevertheless privately managed mainly by coca farmers, without effective State control of such use.