This working paper is part of an ongoing effort at documenting the deployment of renewable energy technologies in productive enterprises. For the purposes of this study, the focus is on farm and off-farm enterprises that are, or have the potential of, making use of renewable energy for value...

European forests and the forest-based sector play a central role in a bioeconomy: they provide material (wood and non-wood), bioenergy and a wealth of other regulating and cultural ecosystem services. These demands need to be properly balanced, and many targets have to be tackled simultaneously....

In Niger, since the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, one of the most successful land restoration strategies has been the regeneration of native trees in farmers' fields. These wild trees can give the most valuable benefits such that they can be potential sources of nutritious food. The founders of...

This article describes Regreening Africa, a five-year programme (2017-2022) funded by the EU that aims to restore one million hectares and contribute to the livelihoods of 500,000 smallholder farmers across eight African countries; Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal and Somalia....

This paper focuses on the essential role of tropical forests and peatlands in wildlife conservation, preventing dangerous climate change and promoting the health and livelihoods of local people. Some key political, economic, legal, social, logistical and research challenges and potential solutions...

This paper aims to recognize the potential of non-wood forest products (NWFP), specifically plant- and mushroom-based NWFPs, to contribute to policy priorities in Europe, especially in relation to rural development, nature conservation and human well-being. It stresses the urgent need for actions...

This research deals with farmers' knowledge on plant diversity management in agroforests through the case study of the Betsimisaraka farmers on the Northern East coast of Madagascar. In this study, farmers' knowledge on plants and different plant functions were analyzed to better understand what...

To increase forest farmers' income and promote the rapid development of collective forest areas, China has implemented reforms of its collective forest tenure system since 2003. The main thrusts of these reforms have been clarifying property rights, reducing taxes, liberalizing business operations, ...

Forest protection can imply binding constraints on communities ('fences & fines') yet some attempts to protect forest by blocking local land use are fruitless ('paper tigers'). Participatory protection, i.e. involving a local community in forest 'co-management', is a relatively recent forest policy ...

This paper highlight the impacts of community forestry policies on poverty alleviation and forest conservation outcomes. Benefits to forests and people varied substantially depending on where the community forestry was established (in particular the land-use zone designation), and also on...