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New videos highlight innovative ways for local people to improve their incomes
RECOFTC’s ForInfo project launches three new short videos that explain innovatice approaches for rural people to improve their incomes up to fourfold through...
A sustainable future for Bokeo, Lao PDR: Two new village forest and NTFP management plans approved by officials
Two villages in Nam Yone Valley, Houay Xai District, Bokeo Province, Lao PDR have recently received approval for their village forest and non-timber forest...
We must fully own and manage our community forests to fight deforestation, climate change and poverty – Global Alliance of Community Forestry Asia
July 3, 2015 – Manila, Philippines. More than 40 representatives of local communities and support groups from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal,...
Land rights and tenure security issues dominate 6th ASFN conference discussions
June 3, 2015 – Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar. Land rights and secure tenure top the list of ‘must haves’ if smallholders and local farmers are to successfully...
Social forestry can help resolve climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, land degradation and poverty: Myanmar's Minister of Environmental Conservation and Forestry
June 2, 2015 - Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar. Myanmar’s Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry Union Minister, H.E U Win Tun opened the 6th...