Over half of the world’s land area is managed through customary, community-based tenure systems by local and indigenous communities that depend on...

A key challenge for scaling up community forestry is how to make community forests economically viable. One way to overcome this challenge is to...

Taking a landscape approach in implementing activities is central to RECOFTC’s upcoming strategic plan. A landscape approach focuses on stakeholders...

Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is based on principles of self-determination. It underpins the collective right of indigenous peoples and...

The livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people in the Asia-Pacific region are dependent upon forest resources. Their livelihoods are strongly...

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) offers a way to restore both degraded forests as well as the surrounding degraded landscape whilst offering...

While there are a number of legal entitlements for women to assert their voices in forest decision-making processes, land rights advocacy groups are...