Gender equality is one of the policy priorities for the government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). The government integrated gender...

There has been an unprecedented shift in global perceptions and appetite for action on climate change over the past several years. The shift is due...

Governments across Southeast Asia increasingly recognize the important roles forests can play in sustaining livelihoods, providing environmental...

Local people living in and beside forests in Thailand have practiced community forestry for decades. However, it was the passage in 2019 of the...

In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Mardha Tillah travelled to Bangkok for a workshop on gender leadership. At that time, she was...

Research in seven Asian countries reveals how community forests increased people’s resilience to the COVID-19-induced restrictions and why recovery...

When Nong Thi Huong talks about what bamboo means to her and her ethnic Thai community in northern Viet Nam, she tells a tale of economic, ecological...

Building partnerships among forest communities, the private sector and the government in Lao PDR is challenging work. Witnessing the fruit of that...

Chantha Ouanthavongsi, director of the Association for Preservation of Environment and Development of Community, immediately applied her new data...