Speaker Series

The Promise and Practice of Community-Based Forestry

February 4 - April 29, 2021

Hosted by The Forests Dialogue (link is external) and the Urban Resources Initiative (link is external)

Community-based forestry intends to create pathways for local people to have decision-making control of forest management. The key strategy of community-based forestry is to equitably empower all local stakeholders through a long-term, landscape-based, and inclusive approach to supporting local communities to secure their land and resource rights, stop deforestation, find alternative livelihoods, and foster gender equity. Key community stakeholders include historically marginalized groups such as Indigenous people and ethnic minorities, as well as those who have geographic, economic, social, and cultural relationships with their local forests. Smallholders and family forest owners are important parts of community forestry models as well. The Community Based Natural Resource Management paradigm places natural resource protection and management responsibility with the local people in exchange for a sharing of the benefits derived from that protection and sustainable management.

Speakers describe their personal and organizational experience with community forestry, the benefits of this inclusive approach, and address challenges to ensure equitable participation and sustainable forest management.

YFF Review

The YFF Review publication summarizes the findings and learnings from all of the presentations from this speaker series, and it is free and open to the public.

All Series Events

Date
Speaker
Organization
Theme
Resources
Date
2/4/21
Speaker David Ganz
Organization
RECOFTC
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Date
2/11/21
Speaker Víctor López
Organization
Natural Resources and Climate Change, Ford Foundation
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Date
2/18/21
Organization
URI, Yale School of the Environment
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Date
3/4/21
Speaker Milagre Nuvunga
Organization
Micaia Foundation
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Date
3/18/21
Speaker Erika Svendsen
Organization
NYC Urban Field Station, U.S. Forest Service
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Date
3/25/21
Organization
The Park People
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Date
4/1/21
Organization
Brazilian Forests Dialogue
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Date
4/15/21
Organization
Forest Peoples Programme
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Date
4/22/21
Speaker Cécile Ndjebet
Organization
Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)
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Date
4/29/21
Speaker Duncan MacQueen
Organization
Natural Resources Research Group, International Institute for Environmental and Development
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