Indigenous Peoples

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Community Forest Tenure and Mapping in Central Africa: CAR case study

1 December 2009

CAR has a series of legislative and regulatory texts that lay down the terms and conditions for occupying the forest lands and areas, which cover around 5 million hectares or 8% of the national territory. This case study looks at the legal context in CAR and what opportunities exist for community mapping.

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Stocktaking: Status of Legal Tenure Recognition of Rights and the Role Community Territorial Mapping – Gabon

1 January 2009

This case study on Gabon finds that there is an urgent need to review community use of forest resources to increase government knowledge of community use but also to capture community knowledge for future management.

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The Situation of the Forest Peoples of the Central African Republic

1 January 2009

This study is the product of several field missions to meet indigenous forest peoples in different areas of south-western CAR, including Bagandou, Bimbo, Mongoumba, Mbata and Bilolo in the prefectures of Lobaye, Ombella Mpoko and Sangha-Mbaéré.

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The use of non-timber forest products in the Congo Basin: Constraints and opportunities

1 February 2007

This report documents research and data on the use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from the six countries of the Congo Basin: Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of Congo or Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.

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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

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Divided Forests: Towards fairer zoning of forest lands

1 January 2006

This report provides a review of macro-level forest zoning as a tool for forest management and land-use planning, in order to identify some of the lessons that have been, or should be learnt. The experiences of Australia, Brazil, Cameroon and Indonesia are considered. The successes and failures of each of these case studies are identified, … Read more