Tropical Forest Update

Issue 20 No 4
Owning forest in Asia
Contents
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Opening session
Conferences like this can lead to real change
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Keynote address
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto Land and forest-tenure reforms are key to implementing a climate-change-sensitive development agenda in Indonesia
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Forest tenure in Asia
Ganga Ram Dahal
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Perspectives of Indonesian forest communities
Few Indonesian communities have statutory ownership of their customary lands
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Forest tenure and gender
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Tenure, governance and climate change
Debating the role of forest tenure in climate-change mitigation
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The role of community forest enterprises
A discussion on improving business practice in communities, featuring FAO’s Sophie Grouwels and Peking University’s Xu Jintao
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Changing agencies
Public forest agencies face many issues in managing, fostering and adapting to changes in forest tenure Public forest agencies face many issues in managing, fostering and adapting to changes in forest tenure
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Maps of the people, for the people
Experts held a roundtable discussion of community participation in spatial planning and the mapping of forest rights
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Unlocking the potential of forests through tenure reform
The conference declaration

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