The specific purpose of the review is to assess the relevance, rigor and robustness of CIFOR’s existing research on property rights and tenure and identify emerging questions that CIFOR research ought to address in the future. To meet this objective, the consultant examined several aspects of CIFOR’s work, including questions related to tenure that CIFOR research has already addressed, how well these have been answered, and what is missing from CIFOR research, including what other researchers outside CIFOR have done on forest tenure. The report is structured in the following manner: following the introduction, it maps out and clarifies central concepts and the relationships between them. Based on the existing literature’s identification of knowledge gaps, six largely unanswered research questions are identified. Next, five evaluative criteria are derived from CIFOR’s Strategy 2008–2018 and applied to all 53 CIFOR publications on forest tenure and rights. The results of the empirical assessment are then presented and discussed, followed by a conclusion.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
CIFOR

Region
Global

Biome
All

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All