Southeast Asian countries must improve tenure rights for people who depend on forests if they are to achieve their goals on social forestry, a model...

The decade-long ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC) ended in February 2020. It aimed to boost social forestry and...

RECOFTC today launched the Knowledge Tree, a tool for decision making for effective, efficient and equitable social forestry. This interactive...

From 2010 to 2020, the number of hectares managed by local communities under social forestry doubled in ASEAN. This achievement is the result of new...

“Community Forestry Participatory Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners,” is aimed at specialists from government agencies, research centres,...

Sustainable forest management in the Asia-Pacific region is an extremely complex, perennial challenge. Biological diversity, illegal logging,...

Southeast Asian policymakers gathered in Bangkok to work together on legal reforms to strengthen community forestry, key to protecting the region’s...

Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have declared ambitious targets for social forestry. If these countries...

The creation of national parks around the world has exacerbated conflict between local communities and governments in cases where communities are...