Community Forests and Land Rights

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Rethinking Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin (Executive Summary)

1 November 2014

This summary of our in-depth study considers the constraints and opportunities for community-based forest management in the region with a careful examination of indigenous and customary systems of forest resource management and rights.

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Rethinking Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin

1 November 2014

This study considers the constraints and opportunities for community-based forest management in the region with a careful examination of indigenous and customary systems of forest resource management and rights.

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New Community Forest Decree in the Democratic Republic of Congo

1 September 2014

On August 2nd 2014, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) passed into law decree 14/1018 fixing the modalities for attributing local ‘community forest concessions’, enacting Article 22 of 2002 Forest Code. This briefing considers some of the potential opportunities and risks for the DRC’s forests arising from this new legislation, as well … Read more

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Central African Republic: Linking Rights, Capacity Strengthening, REDD and FLEGT

1 November 2011

This briefing provides a case study of recent developments in one country, linking together the work that has been done to advance forest community rights and livelihoods, EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance Trade (FLEGT) and REDD processes, and civil society participation.

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Mapping and Community Forests in the Central African Republic

1 November 2011

The indigenous and forest-dependent communities in south-west CAR are considered to be the most disenfranchised of the population with many lacking secure access to traditional lands, resources and public services. CAR’s Forest Law opens up new opportunities to secure resource rights for forest communities.

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Resource rights and timber concessions: Integrating local peoples’ land-use practices in forest management in the Congo Basin

1 February 2007

This paper presents an overview of land-use practices in the Congo Basin, as described in the literature, and then considers these in relation to forest management planning