Mécanisme forêts et paysans

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Nepal has three decades of experience in community governance of forests, which is one of the most successful examples in the world. There are around 19,000 Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs), conserving around 1.7 million ha of forests with the involvement of more than 11.6 million people. CFUGs generally tend...
16/03/2017 - A signing ceremony with fifteen community forestry forest products producers associations (CFPPAs) at village and township level to sign new partnership letters of agreement (LoAs) took place on Friday 10 March, 2017 at the FAO office in Yangón, Myanmar.  Ms. Xiaojie, FAO Representative in Myanmar, U Bo Ni, focal...
16/03/2017 - Within the framework of FFF’s capacity building and learning program (“pillar 3”), the FFF team in cooperation with the Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-Conservation Network (MERN) and the Myanmar Forestry Department had organized the second one-week training course on “Sustainable Timber Production and Value Chain Creation” for 31 persons from...
When smallholder farmers and local communities organise, they can benefit by restoring the functionality of deforested and degraded landscapes, enhance food production, increase the availability of forest products and access to markets, and effect change. Organising to overcome barriers. Forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can include many different groups,...
When farmers and small land holders organise into producer groups to support both livelihoods and forests, remarkable things can happen to a landscape – including a system to sustainably harness energy from forests. That is exactly what happened in a small agroforestry venture in Thailand – and now others are...