scholarly journals Forest Policies and Forest Fringe Households’ Resilience against Poverty in Participatory Forest Management Sites in Burkina Faso

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Boukary Ouedraogo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Forest Fringe

This paper uses an original dataset that was built upon extensive surveys covering 300 forest fringe households on the main participatory forest management (PFM) sites in Burkina Faso. We then combine simultaneously the seminal approach of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) monetary poverty indices and the Béné’s (2013) approach of resilience on costs (expenditures) analysis, so as to emphasize forests fringe households’ resilience against poverty mainly by capturing the induced changes by the 1998 forest policy, in these households’ abilities to cope with poverty. The major outcomes are: (i) forest income sources remain the most dominant in households’ total income for 1997 and 2004; (ii) both poverty rate and poverty gap decrease from 1997 to 2004. This decline in the level of poverty is mainly explained by the households’ coping strategies through the development of investments and others expenditures (agricultural equipment, livestock, poultry, trade, crafts activities and processing of NTFPs) so that to cope with poverty; (iii) forest fringe households are resilient against poverty in PFM sites. The main environmental policy implication of this study should be to update the levels of the instruments of the environmental policy (forest), twenty years after the implementation of the 1998 forest policy so that to reinforce forest households’ resilience and forest sustainability. 

scholarly journals Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges

Oryx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Burgess ◽  
Bruno Bahane ◽  
Tim Clairs ◽  
Finn Danielsen ◽  
Søren Dalsgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
National Forest Inventory ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Donor Support ◽  
Management Approaches

AbstractThe proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) offers significant potential for conserving forests to reduce negative impacts of climate change. Tanzania is one of nine pilot countries for the United Nations REDD Programme, receives significant funding from the Norwegian, Finnish and German governments and is a participant in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. In combination, these interventions aim to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, provide an income to rural communities and conserve biodiversity. The establishment of the UN-REDD Programme in Tanzania illustrates real-world challenges in a developing country. These include currently inadequate baseline forestry data sets (needed to calculate reference emission levels), inadequate government capacity and insufficient experience of implementing REDD+-type measures at operational levels. Additionally, for REDD+ to succeed, current users of forest resources must adopt new practices, including the equitable sharing of benefits that accrue from REDD+ implementation. These challenges are being addressed by combined donor support to implement a national forest inventory, remote sensing of forest cover, enhanced capacity for measuring, reporting and verification, and pilot projects to test REDD+ implementation linked to the existing Participatory Forest Management Programme. Our conclusion is that even in a country with considerable donor support, progressive forest policies, laws and regulations, an extensive network of managed forests and increasingly developed locally-based forest management approaches, implementing REDD+ presents many challenges. These are being met by coordinated, genuine partnerships between government, non-government and community-based agencies.

Nationale Forstprogramme: Internationaler Kontext, erste europäische Erfahrungen und Lehren für die Schweiz | National forest programmes: Context and first experiences in Europe and lessons for Switzerland

2002 ◽  
Vol 153 (11) ◽  
pp. 419-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Bisang ◽  
Willi Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
International Forest Policy

Since UNCED 1992, national forest programmes(NFP) have served as a strategy to formulate and implement forest policies aiming at sustainable forest management. At the international policy level, the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests and the United Nations Forum on Forests have issued a set of proposals for action. A number of countries have started to plan and implement national forest programmes. However, precisely what NFPs are, and what their impact might be, is not entirely clear. This article gives an overview of the international forest policy debate and discusses first experiences made with NFPs in European countries. Against this background the article reflects on the lessons learnt and discusses the prospects for an NFP in Switzerland.

scholarly journals Participatory forest management in Burkina Faso: Members’ perception of performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascaline Coulibaly-Lingani ◽  
Mulualem Tigabu ◽  
Patrice Savadogo ◽  
Per-Christer Odén
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Perception Of Performance

scholarly journals Would harmonizing public land forest policies, Criteria and Indicators, and certification improve progress towards Sustainable Forest Management?: A case study in Alberta, Canada

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Golec ◽  
M K Luckert
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Potential Benefits

As the concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has evolved, governments and other stakeholders have pursued three important frameworks for defining and pursuing SFM: public land forest policies, Criteria and Indicators and certification. In Canada, these three approaches frequently operate simultaneously as policy frameworks for private firms managing forests on public lands. Harmonization of these three frameworks could create potential benefits by simplifying a complicated array of sometimes conflicting forest management standards. But there are also potential costs of harmonization that could arise out of the diverse conditions that embody SFM. The diversity of social values and ecological conditions associated with forests creates difficulties in designing processes that are representative of stakeholders' interests. Moreover, this variety poses challenges to designing standards that are sufficiently flexible to address local conditions, yet useful in contributing to SFM planning and reporting at regional, provincial and national scales. Within this context, we suggest that the diversity inherent in SFM will continue to be accommodated by multiple management frameworks, unless a single framework arises that shows itself capable of being trusted by stakeholders and of being sufficiently flexible to accommodate various definitions of Sustainable Forest Management. Key words: Sustainable Forest Management, forest certification, Criteria and Indicators, public forest policy, harmonization of Sustainable Forest Management frameworks, case study, Canada, Alberta

Adapting forest management to climate change: experiences of the Nisga'a people

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
J.R. Arias-Bustamante ◽  
J.L. Innes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Forest Practices ◽  
Study Results

This study examines and characterizes the potential impacts of climate change on the lands of the Nisga'a Nation in British Columbia, Canada, and how these impacts might affect traditional forest practices. The study results were integrated with a review of current Nisga'a forest policy. The current forest policy has developed an inflexible approach to forest management that perpetuates a top-down decision-making framework inherited from the past relationship with the provincial government. Building from the experiences of the Nisga'a Nation, it is revealed that inflexible forest policies coupled with climate change impacts could lead the forest ecosystems to ecological thresholds. No approach by itself will be sufficient to meet the challenges these changes will bring to Indigenous peoples and society in general. An integrative approach, where the forest management is undertaken from a resilience point of view, is needed if current conditions are to be improved.

scholarly journals Ansätze moderner politischer Steuerung in der Schweizer Waldpolitik | Changing governance approaches in Swiss forest policy (reviewed paper)

2006 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Zingerli ◽  
Willi Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
National Forest ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Governance Changes ◽  
Political Steering

Since 1992, many countries have been experimenting with new governance approaches in environmental policy. The article focuses on governance changes in international and national forest policies and analyses the characteristics of political steering in the Swiss National Forest Programme process between 2002 and 2004.

scholarly journals ROLE OF TRIBAL VANA SAMRAKSHANA SAMITHI (VSS) MEMBERS IN BUILDING FOREST PROTECTION AND ECO-TOURISM AT VAZHACHAL ECO-TOURISM AREA IN THRISSUR DISTRICT OF KERALA

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-277
Author(s):  
Dr.Antony J Kuttencherry ◽  
Dr.P Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Local People ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
The People ◽  
The One

Tribal communities are mainly living nearby the forest areas and their life routine and activities are connected with the forest. Majority of the tribals depend upon forest for their livelihood. The tribals know the characteristic of forest and forest teaches the tribals how to live and move in forest. The 1988 National Forest Policy envisaged Joint Forest Management (JFM) also known as Community Forest Management (CFM), which means forest protection with the support of forest dependent communities. The participatory forestry management (PFM) defines the protection of the forest, manage the noon-wood resources with the support of local people and ensure the livelihood income for local people. The one of the aims of the participatory Forest Management (PFM) is the welfare of the tribals and build the livelihood mission among the tribals. Vana Samrakshana Samithi (VSS) is also known as village level body and it is functioning under the Participatory Forest Management (PFM). The people living nearby the forests are joined in Vana Samrakshana Samithi (VSS) and with their support, forest department manages various activities related to forest protection. The Vana Samrakshana Samithi (VSS) has a great role in improving environmental protection and the concept of eco-tourism. They get livelihood income and also social interaction trainings by the activities of VSS. The VSS activities have supported the tribals by ensuring the livelihood income and in social trainings. The involvement of the tribals through the VSS, makes them aware of the environmental protection, eco-tourism concept, and forest protection among the society. The paper attempts to study the role of tribal members of Vana Samrakshana Samithi (VSS), how to engage in environmental protection, forest protection and building the eco-tourism concept in Vazhachal waterfalls eco-tourism area in Thrissur District of Kerala. KEY WORDS: VSS, Eco-Tourism, Forest Protection, Environmental Protection and Tribals

Wie nachhaltig ist die Schweizer Forstpolitik? Das Nachhaltigkeits-Assessment der Schweizer Forstpolitik: Vorgehen und wichtigste Resultate | How Sustainable Is Swiss Forest Policy? The Sustainability Assessment of Swiss Forest Policy: Approach and Main Results

2000 ◽  
Vol 151 (12) ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Kissling-Näf
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
International Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
International Experts

A group of international experts evaluated whether the aims and instruments of Swiss forest policy are suitable for the promotion of sustainable forest management based on the pan-European criteria. Approach and main results are presented as well as the method developed for the definition of sustainability indicators as an instrument for the evaluation of sectoral policies and the possibility of a transfer of methods and indicators on an international level.

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