Many agricultural programs aim at reducing gender inequalities in the use and control of resources. To measure the impact of the programs and to identify the gender gaps, researchers and practitioners are currently using a myriad of different measurements and indicators. Policy and guidance on the choice of simple and robust indicators is highly needed, […]
REDD+ has the potential to enhance conservation and advance women's participation to forest governance. In this blog, Maggie Roth discusses how IUCN initiated "Gender and REDD+ Roadmaps" have helped to include more women into REDD+ decision making in Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda. Many of us have seen the statistics—around the world, women are the […]
Grace Villamor, Senior Researcher from University of Bonn, discusses 'grazing game', a game that was played with local farmers in order to understand their behavior in response to climate variability, as well as to facilitate social learning. In West Africa the most extreme effects of climate change are projected and expected to occur in desert […]
Sustainable landscape conservation poses many challenges, including revisiting ideas about protected areas. In this blog, Prakash Kashwan discusses his recent research on the topic. Forests play an equally important role on multiple fronts: they sustain rural livelihoods, help provide vital ecological services, act as the stock house of locally and globally valuable biodiversity, […]
Is the answer to reduced deforestation and forest degradation in improving coordination or enabling contestation?Political contestation determines land use outcomes far more than coordination, shows CIFOR research project on multilevel governance. Environmental social scientist Ashwin Ravikumar discusses his views based on this research. Over the past few years, my research colleagues and I have […]
In this blog, Farai Mutondoro, Mary Jane Ncube, Manase Chiweshe and Derick Hamunakwadi discuss the impact of land corruption, particularly on women. The blog is informed by a case study of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project in Zimbabwe. The discussion on women, land and corruption is a missing narrative in the large scale land acquisitions and […]
In this blog post, Blake Ratner from WorldFish discusses Collaborating for Resilience, a partnership that addresses natural resource conflict and competition through multistakeholder dialogue and institutional innovations to strengthen environmental governance. The initiative is inviting new partners; please see below for more information. International investments in agroindustry present a growing source of competition for local […]
In this blog, Meine van Noordwijk from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), discusses the concept of 'Common but Differentiated Responsibilities' (CBDR) in recent international negotiations. “The real tragedy of the commons is that people believe collective action cannot effectively defend common interests”, with words similar to that Ruth Meinzen-Dick opened a session on commons and property […]
Steven Lawry, Director of Forests and Governance Research at CIFOR and speaker at the CAPRi discussion session at Global Landscapes Forum, discusses strengthened community rights and the next steps needed to reach sustainable growth. A version of this blog first appeared in CIFOR Forest News The historic international climate agreement reached at the COP21 United Nations […]
Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom’s 1992 article describing 5 “bundles of rights” has been very widely used, including by CAPRi. In this blog, Pamela Jagger and Christopher Galik discuss their recent paper that reexamines that classification of bundles of rights. This is followed by a response by Edella Schlager, discussing the origins of the Schlager […]
