140 research outputs found
Farmers' organizations, poverty and the envrionment in the Sertao, North-East Brazil
No full textItem does not contain fulltextKatholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 23 september 1997Promotor : Kleinpenning, J.M.G. Co-promotor : Ros-Tonen, M.A.F.232 p
Sustainable forests and livelihoods: Romantic illusions or environmental and social necessity?
No full textReconciling conservation goals and livelihood needs: New forest management perspectives in the 21st century
No full textPartnerships for sustainable forest and tree resource management in Latin America: The new road towards successful forest governance?
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Addressing forest degradation and timber deficits in Ghana
No full textReforestation is an essential component of forest policy where forests are severely degraded and development aims are to be achieved. This is the case in Ghana, which has only 5% (395,000 hectares, or ha) of its primary forests left and where 30% of the population lives on less than a dollar per day. This article is based on insights obtained from several studies (Hoogebosch 2010; Grupstra 2012; Insaidoo, Ros-Tonen and Acheampong in press, a; Insaidoo, Ros-Tonen and Acheampong in press, b) jointly carried out by Tropenbos International Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the University of Amsterdam. It reviews the main characteristics and outcomes of various reforestation schemes in Ghana and identifies lessons from their successes and challenges. Data was obtained through desk studies, open and semi-structured interviews with officials of the Forestry Commission (FC) and the Forest Plantation Development Centre and surveys among target groups. Separate male and female focus groups were held in the study villages, where elements of the Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit (Shepherd and Blockhus 2008) were employed to assess the relative importance of various livelihood sources
Assessment of the influence of institutional factors on management decisions by small farmers in the Amazon : results of ForLive working programme 2
No full textThe effects of wealth on the use of forest resources: the case of the Tawahka Amerindians Honduras.
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Forest-People Interfaces: from local creativity to global concerns
No full textThis book takes the reader on a journey through four major themes that have dominated research on the people-forest interface since the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published its Forestry for Rural Development paper and launched its Programme on Forestry for Local Community Development in 1976. This was the prelude to the FAO VIIIth Forestry Congress entitled 'Forestry for People', organised two years later, which drew attention to the role of forests in meeting people's livelihood needs. These events marked the emergence of social forestry as a new approach to forest management that aimed to increase community participation in the development and management of forest resources (Arnold, 1991; FAO, 1976; Wiersum, 1999). In the 1980s social forestry marked a shift away from an exclusive focus on industrial, timber-oriented forestry to participatory and cooperative management schemes (Colchester et al., 2003). In the same period, the Canadian forester John Bene (Bene et al., 1977) coined the term 'agroforestry' for the practice of integrating trees, food crops and/or animals in a combined production system compatible with the cultural practices of the local population. Bene played an important role in the establishment of the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Nairobi in 1997 (King, 1987). This is now known as the World Agroforestry Centre and has regional offices in India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi and Mali
Global forest management decisions and local use of forest resources in Kenya: Exploring the link
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