Community forestry offers rare hope for Cambodians facing land woes

Thin Lei Win, a journalist for Thompson Reuters AlertNet, recently visited a RECOFTC community forestry site in Kampong Thom, Cambodia. In this article, she writes how community forestry is protecting forests from the ongoing threat of land grabs.

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Report: Forests and climate change after Copenhagen

Following Copenhagen, forestry stakeholders have raised many questions about the meaning of COP15 for people, forests, and forestry. FAO and RECOFTC recently brought together 12 experts in Bali to debate the issues and provide answers to a dozen key questions.

Forests and climate change after Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific perspective

Does conservation reduce poverty?

Does greater biodiversity conservation help or hinder the world’s poorest people? In this month’s commentary, RECOFTC’s Thomas Enters responds to this question through the lens of the protected areas debate in Thailand.

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