Support for aligning your operations with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
Record Topic: Forests
Power and Potential: A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women’s Rights to Community Forests
Indigenous Peoples and local communities land rights toolkit
"This toolkit gathers together information on ten tools that have been successfully used by members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) to promote, protect and strengthen indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ land rights. It is intended to facilitate mutual learning based on the good practices of specific ILC members."
The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula
This research paper investigates how a common conservation intervention (protected areas), has varying impacts depending on the underlying property rights and the profitability of forests.
The Gender Equality in Research Scale (GEIRS)
Includes a Brief and the GEIRS Tool.
Community-based natural resource management: How knowledge is managed, disseminated and used
Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018
Summary of progress in the third year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Indian Forest Act
By Kat Oak
CONTINUE READING Indian Forest Act 1 min read
Malawi Forestry (Amendment) Act
Is gender an important factor influencing user groups’ property rights and forestry governance? Empirical analysis from East Africa and Latin America
Full citation: Sun, Y., Mwangi, E. & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2011). “Is gender an important factor influencing user groups’ property rights and forestry governance? Empirical analysis from East Africa and Latin America.” International Forestry Review, Vol. 13 (2), pp. 205 – 219. – This article explores the effects that gender composition of forest user groups has on property rights and forestry governance, based on data from 290 forest user groups in Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It finds that while female-dominated groups tend to have more property rights to trees and bushes, and collect more fuelwood but less timber than do […]