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Planning for forest management
Production forests are allocated to meet the requirements of economic development and the livelihoods of the people. The goal of forest allocation is to focus on three major pro...
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Large acquisition of rights on forest lands: Focus on Lao PDR
Review of Lao policy on forest management and land concessions, and their long term impact.
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Asia-Pacific Forests and Forestry to 2020 Forest Policy Brief 03: The Forest Diversity Challenge
Most of the terrestrial biodiversity within the Asia-Pacific region is contained within forests. Protected areas are the mainstay for biodiversity conservation although other fo...
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Mangrove Forest Conservation in Thailand
In Thailand, Mangrove forests along the country's coastlines totaled an area of approximately 367,900 hectares in 1961. Unfortunately, between 1975 and 1993, a large proportion ...
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An approach to designing pro-poor local REDD+ benefit distribution systems: Lessons from Vietnam
Provides lessons learned from Vietnam's approach to designing a pro-poor REDD+ benefits distribution system for the future development of effective benefit distribution systems ...
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Conversion timber, forest monitoring, and land-use governance in Cambodia
This report presents an overview of national patterns and practices of forest land clearance during the 2012-2013 dry season as a basis for discussing challenges for Forest Law ...
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Community forestry REDD project: Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
A brief case study of a community forest REDD project in Oddar Meanchey province. The Cambodian Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon offset project...
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Community tenure rights and REDD+: a review of the Oddar Meanchey community forestry REDD+ project in Cambodia
Tenure rights over land, forest, and carbon have become a contentious issue within REDD+ implementation across the tropics because local communities could be excluded from REDD+...
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Assessment of land use, forest policy and governance in Cambodia
An assessment to identify key drivers of deforestation and/or forest degradation in Cambodia and review past efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, in order to ...
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Forest law enforcement governance and trade in Myanmar: A conflict sensitive analysis
The aim of this paper is to provide a conflict-sensitivity analysis of forest governance in Myanmar to inform all stakeholders involved in the negotiations of the Forest Law Enf...
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Grassroots capacity building for REDD+ in Asia
This document reviews the successes and challenges of the REDD+ program's capacity building efforts across multiple countries, as well as looks ahead to potential next phases fo...
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The political economy of land governance in Cambodia
A 2015 report published by Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG) issue of land governance in Cambodia. Land governance is an inherently political-economic issue. This rep...
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Pattern of land cover change in the Lower Mekong Basin, the role of mesoscale approaches
A summary of 2006 PhD thesis about the role of mesoscale approaches in the pattern of land cover change in the Lower Mekong Basin. The author of the thesis seeks to generate a c...
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Nghiên cứu tri thức bản địa trong bảo vệ rừng của người Mông, 2009
Nghiên cứu nhằm đánh giá hệ thống kiến thức bản địa của người Mông tại 2 xã Hang Kia và Pà Cò (Hòa Bình) liên quan tới quản lý và bảo vệ rừng. Từ đó, đề xuất một số giải pháp nh...
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Cambodia: An assessment of forest conflict at the community level
An assessment of community level forest conflict in Cambodia. It was conducted as part of a project to understand the types, causes, and impacts of conflicts over forest resourc...
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Land for my grandchildren: land-use and tenure change in Ratanakiri 1989-2007
This paper draws on case studies from three communities in Ratanakiri to illustrate both the forces driving land-use and tenure change as well as how effective community stewar...
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Global forest resources assessment 2010: Country report Myanmar
The Myanmar country report for the FAO, forming part of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010. The report provides information on the extent of Myanmar’s forests; forest o...
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National report on protected areas and development, Cambodia
This report is part of a series on protected areas and development in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. This report on Cambodia provides information on protected area manage...
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Linking poverty reduction with forest conservation: Case studies from Vietnam
A report linking poverty reduction with forest conversation. The authors first review policies and programmes in Vietnam relating to forest conservation and poverty reduction. T...
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Central cardamom protected forest conservation program
A presentation about the Cambodia's cardamom protected forest conservation program. The presenter discusses the geophysical attributes of the forest, history of the conservation...