Updates

  • Locally controlled forestry in Nepal – needed now more than ever
    17 February 2012

    This edition of Forest Voices takes a look back over the history of community forestry in Nepal throughout the recent turbulent decades and draws conclusions which could help to influence the future of the country's forestry sector.

  • Forest Partnerships Facility proposal - draft November 2011
    13 February 2012

    Draft proposal for a new phase of the National Forest Programme and the Growing Forest Partnerships - to be known as the 'Forest Partnerships Facility' (2012-2017).

  • Trade fair promotes business and sustainable forestry in Las Verapaces
    13 January 2012

    Antonio Ordoñez

    [Versión en español abajo]

    The central Guatemalan region known as ‘Las Verapaces’ held the VII Forestry and Furniture Trade Fair in Alta Verapaz on 16-19 June 2011.

    This trade fair seeks to create business opportunities among members of the forestry sector and promote investments for the export of forest goods, as well as to promote a wider appreciation of forestry culture among Guatemalan society.

  • Ban Chautari report from GFP Nepal: Multi-stakeholder processes through Ban Chautari
    13 January 2012

    This report presents the key achievements of partnership through Growing Forest Partnerships (GFP) in Nepal in catalyzing the restructuring of forest-sector policy processes to make them more deliberative and democratic. A key focus of the report will be presenting results and achievements of 2011 activities. The final section will also provide overall achievements of partnership with GFP since 2010.

  • What difference has thirty years made to forest governance in Ghana?
    13 January 2012

    Ghana’s forestry sector has contributed significantly to socio-economic development over the past thirty years by employing thousands of people and generating about six per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, forest governance – characterised by stakeholder participation, accountability and legality – remains weak and is consequently an obstacle to sustainable forest management efforts.

  • ‘Pinabete’ plantations provide an income for Guatemalan forest communities
    22 December 2011

    For the communities of the Guatemalan highlands, where the conservation of an endangered species has become a profitable business, the holiday season means an income.

    [Versión en español abajo]

  • Economic potential of Guatemala’s non-timber forest products
    22 December 2011

    Seeds from the breadnut fruit, leaves from the xate ornamental palm and chicle (a natural gum) are just some of the products harvested by members of Guatemala’s National Alliance of Community Forest Organizations (the ‘Alianza’) as an economic forest management alternative to the timber trade.

  • Impact of protected areas on Indigenous communities in Thailand and the Philippines
    22 December 2011

    The impacts that protected areas have had on indigenous communities in Thailand and the Philippines have been documented in two recently released studies by KADIOAN Inc. with support from Growing Forest Partnerships.

  • La Alianza levanta el tema de comunidades forestales en conferencia de ITTO en Guatemala
    16 December 2011

    Los líderes de la Alianza Nacional de Organizaciones Forestales Comunitarias, hicieron una exposición de sus experiencias en el manejo forestal en el segundo día de actividades de la 47 Sesión del Consejo Internacional de Maderas Tropicales (ITTO por sus siglas en inglés) que se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Antigua Guatemala del 14 al 18 de noviembre pasado.

  • IFFA report back on G3 participation at COP17
    16 December 2011

    IFFA report back on G3 participation at COP17 in Durban.