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La cartographie participative : Guide pour la production des cartes avec les communautés forestières dans le Bassin du Congo
Ce guide explique comment les représentants des ONG, des gouvernements et des communautés participant aux projets de cartographie participative appuyés par la RFUK
McREDD: How McKinsey ‘Cost-curves’ are Distorting REDD
The carbon mitigation cost-curve, as used by McKinsey & Company, has become influential in national and international REDD policy making, but it is misleading for decision-makers. This briefing outlines why this approach is flawed as a policy-making tool.
Realising Rights, Protecting Forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation
This report is intended primarily for opinion-formers and decision-makers with a role in making and influencing national policy and legislation on REDD. The case studies show that respecting the rights and realities of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities is the only way to ensure that the forests remain standing.
Community Forest Tenure Mapping in Central Africa: Republic of Congo case study
The maps in the study show the extent of ‘indigenous’ knowledge available to the government and forest managers to be used to inform government policy and management plans. This knowledge needs to be documented and its intellectual property protected. Community mapping in most of the cases presented in the study has been a collective exercise … Read more
Community Forest Tenure Mapping in Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study
This paper examines the mapping and zoning initiatives that are underway in the DRC and the few attempts that are being made to document and understand the nuances of community rights to lands and resources.
Community Forest Tenure and Mapping in Central Africa: CAR case study
CAR has a series of legislative and regulatory texts that lay down the terms and conditions for occupying the forest lands and areas, which cover around 5 million hectares or 8% of the national territory. This case study looks at the legal context in CAR and what opportunities exist for community mapping.
Stocktaking: Status of Legal Tenure Recognition of Rights and the Role Community Territorial Mapping – Gabon
This case study on Gabon finds that there is an urgent need to review community use of forest resources to increase government knowledge of community use but also to capture community knowledge for future management.
The Situation of the Forest Peoples of the Central African Republic
This study is the product of several field missions to meet indigenous forest peoples in different areas of south-western CAR, including Bagandou, Bimbo, Mongoumba, Mbata and Bilolo in the prefectures of Lobaye, Ombella Mpoko and Sangha-Mbaéré.
The use of non-timber forest products in the Congo Basin: Constraints and opportunities
This report documents research and data on the use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from the six countries of the Congo Basin: Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of Congo or Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
Resource rights and timber concessions: Integrating local peoples’ land-use practices in forest management in the Congo Basin
This paper presents an overview of land-use practices in the Congo Basin, as described in the literature, and then considers these in relation to forest management planning