RECOFTC and RRI are pleased to present the proceedings from the International Conference on Poverty Reduction and Forests: Tenure, Market, and Policy Reforms which was held 3-7 September 2007 in Bangkok.
The proceedings consist of a booklet and twenty-eight papers selected from those presented at the conference. All are downloadable pdfs.
The Proceedings Booklet provides a succinct overview of the conference and reflection on the main themes discussed.
Session 1: Poverty and Forests: Issues and Concepts
Paper 1: | Does Forestry Have a Role in Poverty Reduction? Mary Hobley |
Paper 2: | Beyond Tenure: Rights-based Approaches to People and Forests. Some Lessons from the Forest People’s Programme Marcus Colchester |
Paper 3: | Human Rights and the Global Forest Regime: Does the UNFF ‘non-legally binding instrument on all types of forests’ Provide Support for Pro-Poor Forestry? Sheelagh O’Reilly |
Paper 4: | Surfing on Waves of Opportunities: Resilient Livelihood Strategies of Dayak Benuaq Forest Users in East Kalimantan, Indonesia Christian Gönner |
Paper 5: | Supporting Forest Communities in Times of Tenure Uncertainty: Participatory Mapping Experiences from Bolivia and Indonesia Peter Cronkleton, Christian Gönner, Kristen Evans, Michaela Haug, Wil de Jong, and Marco Antonio Albornoz |
Paper 6: | Patrimonial Perceptions of Local Communities and Forest Management: Case of the Monogaga Protected Forest, Côte d’Ivoire C.Y. Adou Yao, E. Aké-Assi, J. Ipou Ipou and E. N’Guessan Kouakou |
Session 2: Lessons from Pro-Poor Forestry
Paper 7: | Regulatory Frameworks for Community Forestry, With Particular Reference to Asia. Don Gilmour |
Paper 8: | Participatory Forest Management (PFM) in Kenya: Is There Anything for the Poor? Paul Ongugo |
Paper 9: | Community-based Forestry and the Changes in Tenure and Access Rights in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala Iliana Monterroso and Deborah Barry |
Paper 10: | Forest Tenure in Africa and South and Southeast Asia: Implications for Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation Dominique Reeb and Francesca Romano |
Paper 11: | Forest Tenure Reform in Viet Nam: Experiences from Northern Uplands and Central Highlands Regions Nguyen Quang Tan, Nguyen Ba Ngai, and Tran Ngoc Thanh |
Paper 12: | Rural Household Diversity and the Implications for Small-scale Forestry Development in Leyte Province, the Philippines Nick Emtage, John Herbohn, and Steve Harrison |
Paper 13: | Community Forestry in Bhutan Contributes to Poverty Reduction While Maintaining the Sustainability of the Resources K.J. Temphel and Hans J.J. Beukeboom |
Paper 14: | Pro-poor Development Policy and Natural Resource Management in Post-Conflict Afghanistan: Changes and Challenges Mohammad Hossein Emadi |
Session 3: Opportunities and Threats for Pro-Poor Forestry
Paper 15: | Poverty Reduction in the Forestry Sector: Timber Harvesting and Wood Processing—the Answer to Rural Poverty? Regan Suzuki, Patrick B. Durst, and Thomas Enters |
Paper 16: | A Note on Forest Land Concessions, Social Conflicts, and Poverty in the Mekong Region Keith Barney |
Paper 17: | Why Hasn’t Participatory Forest Management Helped the Forest-dependent Poor out of Their Poverty? Evidence from Eastern India Oliver Springate-Baginski, Ajit Banerjee, and Kailas |
Paper 18: | PESA, the Forest Rights Act, and Tribal Rights in India Sanjoy Patnaik |
Paper 19: | Watching the Tree Grow: Participatory Forest Management Takes Root in Africa T. Tsegaye, A. Arsema, and B.C. Irwin |
Paper 20: | Lao Land Concessions, Development for the People? Cor. H. Hanssen |
Paper 21: | Incorporating Certification into a Pro-poor Forestry Agenda: Lessons From, and Options for, the Asia–Pacific Region Henry Scheyvens, Kazuhiro Harada, and Kimihiko Hyakumura |
Paper 22: | Creating Space: The Effects of an Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) Approach on Leveraging Poor People’s Access, Rights and Benefits from Community-Based Forest Enterprises in the Eastern Hills of Nepal Bishnu Hari Pandit, Cynthia McDougall, Brian Belcher, Chetan Kumar, and Manik Maharjan |
Paper 23: | Can Market be Part of the Decentralization Process? A Review of Nepal’s Buffer Zone Programme N.S. Paudel |
Session 4 : Capacity for Pro-Poor Forestry Reforms
Paper 24: | The PROFOR Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit Gill Shepherd and Jill Blockhus |
Paper 25: | What Makes Local Elites Work for the Poor? A Case of a Community Forestry User Group in Nepal Basundhara Bhattarai |
Paper 26: | Federation of Community Forest User Groups in Nepal: An Innovation in Democratic Forest Governance Hemant Ojha, Dil Raj Khanal, Naya Sharma, Hari Sharma, and Bharati Pathak |
Paper 27: | Discourses on Poverty Reduction from Forestry in Nepal: A Shift from Community to Household Approach? Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Bharat Kumar Pokharel, Basundhara Bhattarai, and Hemant Ojha |
Paper 28: | Emerging Roles of Community Forest Associations in Kenya: The Cases of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Adjacent Dwellers Association (ASFADA) and Meru Forest Environmental and Protection Community Association (MEFECAP) P.O. Ongugo, M.T.E. Mbuvi, E. Obonyo, J. Mogoi, J.O. Maua, C.K. Koech and R.A. Othim |
Session 5 : Forestry Reforms for Poverty Reduction-Agenda and Process for Future Action
Table 1: | Participants’ Country Priorities and Action Plans |
