Research

We are currently building our tenure related project database, but here are already few projects sites to visit.


Improving equity and livelihoods in community forestry

In the recent decades many countries have devolved forest rights as a part of forest tenure reforms and granted greater local control over forests. Forest communities have thus gained more rights to the resources. But does gaining rights help people to derive more and more secure benefits from the forests?Do better rights lead to improved livelihoods, equity and forest condition?This research looked at the nature, goals and results of forest tenure reforms in Asia ( India, Nepal and the Philippines), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Nicaragua).


Poverty environment network-a comprehensive analysis of tropical forests and poverty

The PEN study gathered socio-economic and environmental data at household and village levels in over 20 countries. The tenure data collected by PEN looked at de jure formal owners and de facto users of forest land and forest products. Also rule enforcement of different forest rights were addressed. The analysis of the result is on going (video about Pamela Jagger addressing the results)


Collaborative land use planning

Research programme together with CIRAD aims to strengthen land tenure, forest and community rights to collaborative land use planning and sustainable institutional arrangements.


Bioenergy

This project analyzed different aspects related to sustainable forest-based bioenergy development. Case studies were conducted in Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Latin America. The researchers looked at legal and institutional frameworks in Indonesia, Malesia, Mexico and Brazil and in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Sambia. In many countries, the land classified as available for bioenergy production is infact under complex and overlapping systems of land uses and rights and the insecure land tenure situation affects bioenergy development

 

UPCOMING PROJECTS

EC-IFAD Funded project on Securing Tenure Rights for Forest-Dependent Communities: A Global Comparative Study of Design and Implementation of Tenure Reform

Recent tenure reforms in Africa, Asia and Latin America provide greater legal recognition of customary and local authorities, indigenous territorial rights, and women’s rights. However, implementation of these reforms has been uneven and has led to mixed results, including increasing tenure insecurity. Research will explore the relationships between statutory and customary land tenure and how these relationships affect the tenure security of forest dependent communities, including women and other marginalized groups. Through the use of a global comparative approach and standardized methodologies, this research programme will analyze differential success or failure of policy and institutional innovations intended to enhance secure tenure rights for forest and trees, and identify strategies that are likely to lead to desired outcomes.

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