With regard to community land and forest rights, forest management should be devolved to community control community land and forest ownership should be legalized criteria and indicators for certification should be strengthened and markets should be designed that recognize local rights.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

16 Arvind Khare on Strengthening Community Land and Forest Rights for Meaningful Decentralisation.

Respecting human rights and protecting vulnerable forest dependent people are important elements of sustainable forest management and the creation of an enabling environment for poverty alleviation.

Examples of policy activities include, inter alia, forest law enforcement, certification, market access, development of guidelines, ex post evaluation, studies on market conditions, status of tropical forest management, community forest management, tenure rights, further processing of tropical timber , trade of non timber forest products and ecosystem services.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

Even this basic level of subsistence is threatened where tenure rights are insecure often forest laws deny or limit the right to use wood and non timber forest products, or rights of access and residence are denied.

In the forest. Always in the forest.

Make for the forest! To the forest, quick!

In many countries, Governments have already recognized ancestral domain claims and the legitimate rights of forest dependent people, and have strengthened community forest tenure or created new opportunities for community management.

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Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Forest management.

Forest restoration

Forest preservation

Forest reforestation

Forest ecosystems

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Forest fire?

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

(j) Promoting improved forest practices through strengthening sustainable forest management standards

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

The owner of the forest also has a duty to take measures to reduce the possibility of the forest damage and restrict its distribution to monitor forest situation and to notify the State Forest Service of determined forest damage.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

Clarification and strengthening of tenure and access rights related to forest lands and use was one of the suggested actions.

Sustainable forest management

Forest Research Institute

Asia Forest Partnership.

Oh. Bill Forest?

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

(a) Sustainable management of forest and afforestation reforestation area of forest growing stock and

The reports raise the issue of pastoral land rights from the point of view of access to forest and pastoral land.

16. The native communities live in clearly identifiable ecological zones tropical dry forest, subtropical rain forest and tropical rain forest scattered over large catchment areas.

One Forest, Two Tigers

Extent of forest resources.

Forest health and vitality.

Financing sustainable forest management

Traditional forest related knowledge

Forest related scientific knowledge

Forest health and productivity

International Forest Policy Forum