Side Event at the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests featuring MegaFlorestais Leaders Date: 05/14/2015 – 1:15 PM-2:45 PM Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York City Purpose This side event will inform UNFF participants of the current status of forest tenure, governance issues, and new initiatives underway to strengthen forest governance and assist […]
MegaFlorestais celebrates a decade of convening global forest leaders to find innovative solutions to global challenges Rapid changes in the world’s climate and rising pressures on its natural resources have pushed its forests into a constant state of flux. For this reason, many leaders of public forest agencies across the world have come to realize […]
India’s Down to Earth Journal cover story on Mexico’s forestry experience, with contributions gathered at the Next Generation 2014 seminar Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava traveled to the forested states of Mexico to document this turnaround and brings home lessons on forest governance Mexico has made great strides in democratising its forest governance. More than 70 per […]
“Save the rainforest” is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the 1990s, new laws (and transparent data) are helping slow the rate of deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough? Not yet. He […]
Sally Collins participated in the XXIV IUFRO World Congress on “Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research” Plenary 3 Panel: Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis, and Application at the Forest Science/Management Interface How can we effectively integrate the many ways of understanding forests to create the best paradigms to manage them? That was the question that moderator […]
The Society for the Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD) supported an Indian journalist’s travel to Mexico to learn about community forestry. During his trip he spoke to several government and civil society representatives and participated in the 2014 Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders seminar. His research findings were published as a cover story in the Down to […]
Tasso Azevedo, a forestry manager and socio-environmental entrepreneur dedicated to preserving the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bright Award at Stanford University. The $100,000 prize is given annually to an unheralded individual who has made significant contributions to global sustainability. It is the top environmental award from […]
As the government of Lao PDR is revising its policies and laws on land and natural resources, eight official representatives participated in a study tour from october 8-12, 2012 to learn from Mexico’s experience in tenure reform and forest management. The tour was organized by the Rights and Resources Initiative, with the support of the […]
The Environmental Economics Program in China (EEPC) of Peking University and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), jointly organized a study tour for the delegation of the Chinese Society of Forestry Economics (CSFE) in the USA from April 30 to May 4, 2012. The objective of this study tour was to learn from the experiences […]
On April 18-25, 2010, a delegation from Nepal participated in an exchange to learn about Mexico’s experience in community forestry with the support of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the National Forestry Commission of Mexico. Six Nepalese from the government and the Federation of community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) were accompanied by three […]
