Stories of Change
This video is told from the viewpoint of a female member of a bamboo shoot processing cooperative that is part of the Khao Rao Thian Thong forest...
Stories of Change
International Women’s Day is 8 March. This year RECOFTC is launching the new report ‘Mainstreaming gender into forest policies in Asia and the...
Stories of Change
When a mother of two loses her husband, she can no longer gather resources from the forest by herself and must ask her eldest daughter to leave...
Notes from the Field
USAID’s Grassroots Equity and Enhanced Networks in the Mekong (GREEN Mekong) and RECOFTC (The Center for People and Forests) organized the 2nd...
Stories of Change
I am very thankful that I was one of the participants in the RECOFTC’s workshop: “Application of Community Forestry in Rural Forestry Reform: China’s...
Stories of Change
On 19 December, the Bangkok Post published “Time to take the power away from the polluters,” an op-ed piece written by Dorothy Grace Guerrero. In the...
Stories of Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations panel of climate experts, has struck an unfamiliar tone of aggressive urgency...
Stories of Change
RECOFTC’s ForInfo project is testing the feasibility of harvesting bamboo to produce renewable energy; the findings have been largely positive,...
Stories of Change
Enhancing local peoples' livelihoods through community forest enterprises has been both promoted and obstructed by NGOs, civil societies and...